Re: Requesting advice regarding creating a custom Debian distribution

[icelinux]

 I came up with nothing on Google for stem linux., and DeliLinux  
looks to be turkish so I don't know if we would even be to  
communicate. I should try talking with them, their desktop looks  
pretty nice. I have already done a bit of research on what  
applications similar distributions are using, tested some other  
applications, created a preliminary package list and currently have  
the prototype running beautifully on my old 500Mhz AMD. I am not  
trying to target the 486 crowd, I am aiming for PII & PIII.

I have seen 2 project that are relevent:
1) stem linux (it may have changed names or may be dead), it sought to
test various applications for memory footprint and determined what was
the best in various application catagories and picked the best and
packaged that ONE.
This information would be helpful to Debian and other proejcts for
recommendation for low-end hardware.

2) deli linux, this one has a few hand packaged apps in a slackware-like
format. The main advantage is that it uses ulibc iirc, and is targeted
for low end hardware (I run it on a p75/32mb libretto [0]).

#2 is active, but installation is primitive and dependcy handling is
non-existant (using ldd on binaries).
If someone could add apt-get support for deli-linux, thats cool.

But one of the issues people on debian-user have mentioned on low-memory
(and low cpu) hardware is the long wait for apt-get and friends to run
(if at all).
-Kev
[0] This machine has no floppy support, no network, no cdrom, no usb. I
removed the 2.5 hdd and installed deli with qemu, an hdd iso file and a
usb hdd enclosure for the removed hdd.
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