Vishak V. Kurup wrote: > Thank you...Daneil and John... > My device configuration is as follows. > CPU : intel Celeron M 1.60 Ghz > DIMM : W/DDR 1GB ECC > IDE(Primary Master) : Compact Flash (1 GB) > IDE(Primary Master) : Compact Flash (256 GB) > > My confusion is that if it is possible to customize the CentOS for my application. It is. This is not your average embedded system:-) I's also possible to install a a bigger CF, I have 4 Gbytes in my camera (and wonder whether I really should have gone for eight). I use CentOS & Scientific Linux, but for this _I_ might go for Debian or maybe Ubuntu Long Life. Depends on whether a GUI matters (GUI takes much disk and RAM), and what the particular application is. > > Regards > Vishak V Kurup > > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of John Summerfield > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 6:22 PM > To: The CentOS developers mailing list. > Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Using Centos as embedded linux. > > Daniel de Kok wrote: >> On 1/10/08, Vishak V. Kurup <vishak.kurup at nestgroup.net> wrote: >>> I am newbie to Centos. I would like to know if it is possible to use centos on embedded devices. >>> Has any one done any thing similar? Please do reply with any comments � >> That completely depends on the application. Currently a minimal system >> is fairly large (~400-~500MB IIRC). This may be OK for some embedded >> devices, and one or two orders of magnitude too large for other >> embedded devices. > > I didn't think it was that small, unless you're talking about the amount > of RAM needed to run recent anacondas:-) > >> If you need something much smaller (or a non-supported platform like >> ARM), I'd suggest looking at Busybox or a BSD operating system. > > > > Debian is very popular on ARM; I think I read it has more Linux system > on ARM than on IA32!. > > The linksys wireless router, wrt54g runs Linux and there are alternative > firmwares for it. Look for openwrt for info on that. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)