Internet Browser Enabled Linux Distro for Embedded Usage

http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2760742655.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_Linux

[quote=vishnunair7]And also i would like to know whether there is a difference between the embedded and the pc version of the distros other than the size which is extremely small for the embedded distros for obvious reasons.[/quote]From the linked Wikipedia page:[quote] Since embedded devices serve specific rather than general purposes, developers optimize their embedded Linux distributions to target specific hardware configurations and usage situations. These optimizations can include reducing the number of device drivers and software applications, and modifying the Linux kernel to be a real-time operating system. Instead of a full suite of desktop software applications, embedded Linux systems often use a small set of free software utilities such as busybox, and replace the glibc C standard library with a more compact alternative such as dietlibc, uClibc, or Newlib.[/quote] You will not want to use Embedded Linux distros for a PC.[quote=vishnunair7]Is there any software which I could install in Ubuntu or any other Linux distro for that matter and customize linux from scratch adding only software that I want .....in this case only the internet browser..maybe only firefox or dillo??[/quote] If you want a small, customizable distro, check out Slax ([url]http://www.slax.org/[/url]).

I'm not really an embedded guy, but I would check out Embedded Debian (Emdebian): [url]http://www.emdebian.org/[/url]. My last post was more to clarify what you should and should not use on a PC. Good luck!

Is ucLinux a good option??

will ucLinux run on VirtualBox?...i googled it...got no results!!

Thanks a lot Blinky...Since you made that refernce to the Slax version I had built....I had included only Mozilla Firefox and it came upto around 90MB(This is oncluding the Slax Core and something else which i felt was required for everyhting else to run smoothly!.).Anyway if i use hardware(a chip!) that supports USB,is it possible for me to run the same slax distro?? If so can u give me some details regarding the hardware because this does sound easier than embedding..

So "Blinky"....I can use these pico and nano-itx's as a normal computer motherboard....right??there's no embedding factor coming into play r??.....if so this is cool!! well see...my basic idea is to just create a small box which should have basically all software and hardware with only internet capabilities...so all a person would have to do is connect a monitor or any other display device and this "box" starts up....((It might sound pretty basic to u guys but its just a high school project so))......so any other suggestions for this?? I would still like to embed if that would b possible but you guys don know much bout it as well....Anybody well versed with ucLinux ...please let me know.......