Need a very compact OS for imbedded system.

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Working on a robot project and we are using a PC/104 board with 320MB Flash card, 256MB SDRAM, and a 300MHz Geode CPU. I had no choice in hardware.

However software I do have some flexibility. Some previous semester's students have used a distro called Puppy Linux. It looks ok, easy enough to use and very small, even has a mode for installing on FLASH media to preserve it better. I just wonder, is there anything better out there?

My Linux experience involves installing RedHat in a VMware, running it for a little while and realizing how completly worthless it is. I can't use it for school projects/homework because the necessary software doesn't run, and I can't play games...so I trashed it. However; Friday I plan to tackle setting up linux on an SBC for a school project.
 
In fact, other than a Java VM, we need no additional applications. A GUI however would be preferred which Puppy has as well as at least some other "small linux" distributions have.
 
Why Java? It doesn't really seem like the most logical choice for a slow, space constrained embedded project...
 
ameoba said:
Why Java? It doesn't really seem like the most logical choice for a slow, space constrained embedded project...
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I know :( I despise Java even on a desktop....Professor wants to keep the same architecture as previous semesters.
 
Reanimation_LP said:
Try XPe? x_x
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I did a google for XPe but its not clear from the searches what I need.

Can you show me where the homepage/downloads are for it?
 
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