I have seen 2 project that are relevent: 1) stem linux (it may have changed names or may be dead), it sought to test various applications for memory footprint and determined what was the best in various application catagories and picked the best and packaged that ONE. This information would be helpful to Debian and other proejcts for recommendation for low-end hardware. 2) deli linux, this one has a few hand packaged apps in a slackware-like format. The main advantage is that it uses ulibc iirc, and is targeted for low end hardware (I run it on a p75/32mb libretto [0]). #2 is active, but installation is primitive and dependcy handling is non-existant (using ldd on binaries). If someone could add apt-get support for deli-linux, thats cool. But one of the issues people on debian-user have mentioned on low-memory (and low cpu) hardware is the long wait for apt-get and friends to run (if at all). -Kev [0] This machine has no floppy support, no network, no cdrom, no usb. I removed the 2.5 hdd and installed deli with qemu, an hdd iso file and a usb hdd enclosure for the removed hdd. -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org