Hi,

sorry for abusing this forum a bit, but as I have made far better experiences here than in several linux-forums I thought I give it a try.

In the forseeable future I may need to build a custom linux system for an embedded hardware (x86 compatible, 512MB RAM, 32GB flash) that will run Perl cgi-scripts.

It needs to contain (among a few other things) apache, mysql and Perl.

I wonder if someone could recommend a current distribution to use as a starting point to build such a system (I don't have any experience with such a task unfortunately)?

My current idea is to use something like Gentoo or Arch and try to slim that down as much as possible, but I would like to get some recommendations from people that have more experience with such things.

If you could point me to some forum that would be more appropriate I would also be thankful.

Many thanks!

In reply to custom linux for embedded system with Perl by morgon

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