Re: Which ARM Linux "distro"?

[Florian Boor <florian.boor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Mark at Virtera wrote:
> I've been able to run OpenZaurus/OpenEmbedded built kernels and images
> with considerable success, but booting the OPIE desktop adds a lot of
> bloat. This is fine when I want a PDA desktop, but often I'm just
> testing or doing command-line stuff and don't need the GUI at all. Also
> I don't want to be stuck forever with the archaic 2.4.18 kernel used on
> the Zaurus.

you might become happy with Familiar (based on OpenEmbedded too). It provides
not only GUI images but a "rootstrap" image without any GUI packages at all.

Greetings

Florian

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