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?

Comments

You don't need binaries.

[Anaxagor]

"Such a distro shouldn't install GCC, so I'll need all the software as binaries."

Just get yourself another machine with a toolchain to build the binaries you need from source, particularly if you plan on taking binaries from untrusted sources.

Of course someone could give you dodgy code, but it's a lot less likely to happen, and at least you've got a fighting chance of checking the code for suspicious function calls etc.