[ale] distro for carputer

Randy Ramsdell rramsdell at adelphia.net
Sat Feb 4 21:49:30 EST 2006


On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 21:21 -0500, Philip Polstra wrote:
> I have a little computer I'm setting up to put in my car (van
> actually).  I'm trying to decide which distro to use.  The computer is
> equipped as follows:
> Celeron 2.9 GHz processor
> 1GB RAM
> 100GB SATA hard drive
> DVD+RW drive (ATA)
> Firewire
> USB
> ATI Radeon 9200Pro graphics card
> 
> I'm trying to get a Linksys WUSB54G 802.11g USB adapter working for
> networking.  I'm also might put a Verizon wireless Internet card in
> the machine.
> 
> I want to play DVD's on the computer, and also play MP3's.  Naturally,
> I'll do other things as well, but those are the two most common
> things.
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I was thinking of using gentoo for a SFF or carputer, but I haven't
decided on the hardware yet. Once I do, I will probably will try gentoo
first as it starts from the bare minimum system from start. Of coarse,
the system may be very slow compiling, but that would depend on the
number of apps needed.

Randy




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