[PLUG] how small will Gentoo go?

[Alan Olsen]

On 11/10/06, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 09 November 2006 06:52, Keith Nasman wrote:
> > Carla Schroder wrote:
> > > hey all,
> > >
> > > How small can you make a Gentoo installation? I want to roll my own
> > > firewall/WAP/router Linux, and I want it to be as small as possible,
> and
> > > to be easily customizable and upgradeable. Which sounds like Gentoo,
> does
> > > it not? Pyramid Linux, Pebble, and other WAP Linuxes weigh in from
> 50-128
> > > megabytes. How does Gentoo compare? Here's a sample feature list:
> ..
> > > I want to keep it under 64 megabytes.
> > >
> > > thanks!
> >
> > Carla,
> >
> > www.gumstix.com might be an option. Not only do they have really small
> > form formfactors but you can roll your own software to install. Give
> > them a look.
> >
> > Keith
>
> Gumstix are cooool. I want one for a road-warrior VoIP device. :)


Those are cool.

I can think of all sorts of evil uses for one of those.

Sniffer taped to the bottom of a desk.  ]:>

Packet translator for the boss's computer.

Lots of fun to be had.