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My intention is to build or beg, borrow or steal a singularly focoused system for the purpose of running seq24 and nothing else. I wont need sound drivers or lan ...
  1. 03-16-2010 #1
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    minimal singularly focoused system

    My intention is to build or beg, borrow or steal a singularly focoused system for the purpose of running seq24 and nothing else.
    I wont need sound drivers or lan or anything just keyboard + mouse ps2, edirol um-2 driver, card reader 2gb max is fine (which I hope to boot from) maybe akai lpd8* (usb midi controller)
    and monitor output.
    I was hoping to find minimal distro where everything is optional from the install with a reasonable user base so I can nag more experianced users if I come into difficulty.
    The smaller the better really :0)

    *no means essential

    any ideas?
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    10MB small enough?
    Tiny Core Linux, Micro Core Linux, 10MB Linux GUI Desktop, Live, Frugal, Extendable

    30MB?
    SliTaz GNU/Linux (en)

    Otherwise Crux, Gentoo, or Arch all allow you to build up your system as you like. But the base in those distros will be much larger, a couple hundred MB.
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    thats cool, will look at those..
    Does anyone have any experiance booting any distros of a usb stick or card reader on an office terminal computer, after looking around this seems to be the ideal solution for me as they are cheap small and disregarded by most consumers as not very usefull?
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    Do you mean your gonna be using your USB/Memory Card as the main piece of hardware to have the OS on?
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    yeah I'm aware that that is possible, but I have no experiance with office client terminals so I am not sure of hardware compatibility say if they have alternative cpus to the usual intel or amd
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    Quote Originally Posted by matt_ttam View Post
    yeah I'm aware that that is possible, but I have no experiance with office client terminals so I am not sure of hardware compatibility say if they have alternative cpus to the usual intel or amd
    It's pretty unlikely for them to have a processor architecture other than x86 or x86_64.

    More likely at issue is whether their BIOS supports booting from USB or SD cards.
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    ah I see, so if they were to boot via networking, could I fake a sd networking drive via the lan or whatever powered by usb or does this involve too much hardware hacking and wizardry>?
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