<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Simon Greenwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sfgreenwood@gmail.com">sfgreenwood@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>The Fedora build is a desktop build (called a remix, so probably not with all the bangs and whistles of the out of the box DVD distro) and fits on a 2Gb SD card. The Debian build is, I believe, more server oriented, but that's Debian generally is. XFCE will run happily in 256Mb of RAM and there are other small GUIs with the same kind of footprint/</div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br>Both will have custom/ARM based kernels. Having used ARM versions of Debian on Sheevaplugs it's generally extremely stable. I've just checked and Debian (2.6.32) on a plug (no gui) with a few applications installed is only using 596M storage and 85Mb RAM <br>
<br>This is an intriguing project from a portable computing perspective as well. <br><br>I want one! :)<br></div></div>