[cctalk] Old UNIX Systems

On Sat, 1 Jun 2013, Liam Proven wrote: It isn't quite what I'm looking for. I've yet to find a currently maintained Linux distribution that does what I need and isn't bloated in userspace. I'm looking more for what a Linux distribution once was in the late 1990s, with full (advanced) networking support, plus normal network services, and still have a small userspace footprint (and low memory usage). A GUI is non-essential and for both space and security reasons (note all the recent X and X-libraries security bulletins) and I'd prefer to be able to leave it out completely in many applications. Are there /any/ currently maintained Linux distributions out there these days that are geared towards embedded use where they don't blindly assume multiple GB of memory and drive space? Surely I'm not the only one looking for something like this? The lack of i386 support with TC isn't very encouraging, either (they state i486 as a minimum, which is the same as modern Debian, et al.) I have boxes upon boxes of i386 stuff and I'd hate to at some point have to create a separately maintained fork of the Linux kernel just to keep them supported (everything from Intel 80386SX-16 to AMD 386DX-40, with and without FPUs). The idea of using either an obsolete (and likely unmaintained) Linux kernel or MS-DOS on them isn't terribly appealing.