On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 09:03:35 -0500, Ryan D'Baisse <ryan.dbaisse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:54:18 -0000, Paul Grenyer <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Out of interest, why? Wouldn't it be better to recommend that your customers > > use a particular distro? Then you don't have to be responsible for updates > > etc... > > > > > Actually, I am kinda wondering the same thing. So, if I may, here is > my logic to want to do this... > > A friend and I have been kicking around the idea of building a product > that will be delivered as an Internet appliance. Our product would > have a custom Internet server to handle the socket-level stuff and a > web-based interface for modifying settings of our server and doing > basic stuff with the machine, like rebooting. We would like to use > Linux but want it stripped down so that only the bare essentials are > available for running our our stuff and the web server. At this point > we are trying to figure out what we would need and how we would do > this. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanx, > Ryan > Check out http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento.
