Eric and Joey,
Let me toss in some additional thoughts on the expansion of the leaf distro. I do not think it completely qualifies as an embedded system but a year ago with the help of this list I created a mini DMZ webserver. My main reason for wanting such a system was to have my own mail server to bypass all the size and quota restrictions of my ISP. This server used ez-ipupdate and had qmail.lrp as the mail server. I removed shorwall and used weblet as the web server. It served a basic set of html pages where could post photos of family interest and file I wanted to transfer to friends or work.
The system was all leaf booting from a CD and used the hard drive for web content and mail storage only. If I was ever hacked, all I had to do was reboot and the system was restored. If the persistent storage on the hard disk was compromised I could restore it from my windows box /samba connection in seconds. At worst, I would lose 24 hours of mail. I considered even issuing an init 6 from cron daily just to keep the hackers at bay.
Alas, the demise of my plan was spammers. Due to many spammers using varible IP addresses, many ISPs filter mail from specific blocks of IP addresses as spam so I had many of the email messages I sent rejected.
But the system worked great, was extremely portable and even hardware failure really did not present a problem since any pc with the right NICs would replace it in an instant. So I see a valid use for an expanded LEAF distro. Yes there are other mini distros out there but I am familiar with leaf.
Thank you for all your efforts,
Kory Krofft
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