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I've been thinking of making a (mostly) solid-state asterisk pbx. Take either centos or some other distro, cut it down to bare minimum and put asterisk + AMP on. Something that could be put onto a usb2.0 flash stick, bootable. Modern flash devices (usb, compactflash) have builtin wear leveling management and will last longer than you think:

Hi, I want to set up a Linux as Access Point, and maybe, as router too. There is some distro or minidistro in order to do that ? thanks in advance andres

Why not try something like Pebble linux from http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble It is a stripped down Debian install that is aimed at running a wireless hotspot but it is just Debian and you can install whatever you want. It fits on a 64MB flash card but if you install almost anything you will want a 128MB one. It does come with iptables and iproute2 tools as I re...

I'm trying to get the total Linux/* installation size as small as possible. I'm wondering if anyone has looked at the installed packages list from the Redhat installation [rpm -qa] and has parsed out all packages not needed for * to run. I follow the custom install guide from Andy Powell but the installation yields 948+ Meg with 340 installed packages. I'm sure most of those packages

...;kpj@junghanns.net> To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Organization: Junghanns.NET GmbH Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 10:11:11 +0200 Reply-To: asterisk-users@lists.digium.com Hi, > Actually, you the Geode CPU mentioned below is a 5x86 (486 platform) at > 233 MHz. If you take Pebble (http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble/), which > is a downstripped Debian (< 64 MB) on a readonly ext2 filesystem, you > should be grand. Installing asterisk + some extra stuff will probably > require, that you have at least a 128MB or 256MB flash or so. Dont go for "stripped down but complete" distrib...