[PLUG] Minimal Distribution for Atom 550 Processor

Nat Taylor bioborg at gmail.com
Tue May 21 19:59:14 UTC 2019


https://www.archlinux.org/
https://www.ubuntu.com/core
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/

Really, I'd go for arch.  The install isn't that big of a deal really.  And
you get exactly what you want.
If you do ubuntu core you can use snaps to install what you need...


On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 11:53 AM W7DAL <W7DAL at comcast.net> wrote:

> Works fine with Linux Mint.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On May 21, 2019, at 8:06 AM, Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Atom 550 is basic 2010-ish 64-bit x86-64 low end CPU. As such it should
> > work with any mainstream modern distribution. Be it Fedora, Ubuntu,
> Debian,
> > openSuSE, .... In no particular order.
> >
> > It is probably going to be very sluggish by any contemporary measure.
> And,
> > it does not support modern virtualization and does not support AES
> > instructions if you want to use it for anything to do with encryption
> > (networking, storage, etc.)
> >
> > Hope it helps,
> > -T
> >
> >> On Mon, May 20, 2019, 19:30 Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I got an SSD for this beast, now waiting on a power cord. In the
> meantime,
> >> trying to decide on what distribution I want to load. I was originally
> >> going to go with CentOS, but not sure if that is doable on this Atom
> >> processor. I saw a recommendation for Puppy Linux, but Puppy became very
> >> confusing very fast. Once installed, this will run headless. No GUI or
> >> anything is necessary. Just need basic network stuff like dhcp, ntp,
> gpsd,
> >> and maybe a lightweight webserver for some static pages and possible
> file
> >> downloads. It will not be connected to the Internet, just a local LAN.
> >>
> >> (Yes, I've used a RaspberryPi for this in the past. I just want to use
> this
> >> box this time.)
> >>
> >> I appreciate your suggestions.
> >>
> >> Michael
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