Re: [LAU] Simple monitor system: which distro?

Hi Andrew,

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Andrew Bryant wrote:

> It will need to boot into a script that starts all the above.

I recommend doing this as a startup script and having it run
as a daemon.[1]

> It would be nice if it ran on elderly hardware - a PIII/733 with 512MB is
> available.

FWIW, I have a "main recording system" that is PIII/500 with
512 MB, running blackbox for the WM. :-) So, there
should be no problem with this hardware.

> I am expecting to modify meterbridge, so the existence of a binary package is
> not important for that application. The others, however, will be standard.
>
> Any thoughts which distribution would be the best starting point?

Whichever one you're comfortable with. Any linux should be
able to fit this bill. I think it's easy to admin a
headless Debian system from the command line -- but I'm also
a command line junkie.

Several of the packages you listed aren't well-adopted. If
I were you, I would just compile them myself. Sometimes,
even if a binary package is avail. it will be out of date.
Most of those packages will also compile in about 5 minutes
or less.

-gabriel

[1] http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-write-sys-v-init-script-to-start-stop-service.html
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Received on Fri Jul 30 16:15:01 2010