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Lite Linux Distros for a Digital Picture Frame?
bwy asks: "I'm building a digital picture frame, inspired by a story here at Slashdot. Currently, I'm using Red Hat 9 with GDM autologin, icewm, and a slideshow program autostarting. I've installed code to hide the mouse pointer and the 'powerswitch' kernel module to allow the frame to run a proper shutdown (instead of a suspend) when the ATX power switch is pressed. The hardware is an EPIA 5000 with a laptop drive. I think this is overkill, however, and I am a purist. Is there a lightweight distribution that is EPIA friendly? Such a distro shouldn't install GCC, so I'll need all the software as binaries. How would I go about booting from a ramdisk? This would make the 'powerwitch' kernel mod not so important since there is no worry of corrupting the file system." Does anyone have distribution suggestions, or pointers to other information that might be helpful for such a project?
www.damnsmalllinux.org and a Compact FLASH to IDE Adapter. install it, make no swap, point all logs to /dev/null and adjust as neccicary.
bingo, I did this with spare parts sans iso reauthoring in less than an hour.
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'I am become Shiva, destroyer of worlds'
Currently, I'm using Red Hat 9 with GDM autologin...
You can drop GDM and its autologin.
RTF:
man xinit
man su
( hint: su - anon xinit session )
eMoviX/Movix are minidistros which are focused on multimedia display. You can boot and and it'll show audiofiles and movies which are on the same medium. I assume it can also show pictures, but haven't tried it though... I could be interesting as it is rather small and they describe setting up CompactFlash in their tutorials/docs.