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11-04-2012, 09:03 PM
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Best super-small distro for ARM?
I have a lot of experience with Gentoo but I need something super-small I can run entirely from within a ramdisk on the 256MB Beaglebone. Can anyone recommend a super-small distro with good ARM support? I'm trying Tiny Core now but ARM support is new and I have yet to make it work 100%.
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11-05-2012, 10:27 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Apr 2010
Location: Continental USA
Distribution: Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, DSL, Puppy, CentOS, Knoppix, Mint-DE, Sparky, VSIDO, tinycore, Q4OS, Manjaro
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It would be difficult to get better than a home-rolled Debian based set. It depends upon your limits and criteria beyond what you have posted.
I fully expect Tiny-Core to become the best Live-Mini option in this space, but it may take some time. While waiting, there is significant ARM support in several distributions. Debian is the best that I use, but I only use a small subset of what is available.
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11-05-2012, 01:51 PM
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Thanks, can you recommend any others with excellent ARM support that I should check out?
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11-05-2012, 03:42 PM
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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: USA
Distribution: Mageia 7 - Debian 10 - Artix Linux
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I would think doing a netinstall of Debian Arm would be a nice one.
Not sure how small these are
Fedora
Ubuntu
ArmedSlack
Arch
You would need to research them further, as I have never used any of them.
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11-06-2012, 05:20 AM
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Location: Pennsylvania
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Build your own with Buildroot. Using uclibc will help you get a smaller size and you can include all the things you want for whatever you want to do.
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11-06-2012, 03:11 PM
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How small can Debian ARM get? Can it get smaller than Gentoo?
Buildroot looks very interesting.
Last edited by linuxquestionsrocks; 11-06-2012 at 03:13 PM.
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11-06-2012, 09:28 PM
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It looks like buildroot doesn't have some of the packages I need.
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11-07-2012, 04:44 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by linuxquestionsrocks
It looks like buildroot doesn't have some of the packages I need.
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Buildroot is actually fairly easy to extend. Adding your own packages is pretty easy. It supports packages that use GNU autotools, cmake, and plain old makefiles. |
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11-07-2012, 01:16 PM
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When you guys refer to Debian ARM above, do you mean Emdebian?
Last edited by linuxquestionsrocks; 11-07-2012 at 01:21 PM.
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11-07-2012, 11:48 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: USA
Distribution: Mageia 7 - Debian 10 - Artix Linux
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This is the one I' was going by.
http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ |
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11-08-2012, 02:12 PM
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Has anyone tried Embedian? It seems like it might be even better suited to something like this.
http://www.emdebian.org/ |
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11-08-2012, 09:44 PM
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