I have a project that would incorporate combining webserver software which has little to nothing to configure for users, and which would need to be installable on any PC (so regardless of the system's hardware). It's a bit similar to SLAMPP. The project "may" be hosted on Comunes collective, and I might bring some external people to this (SliTaz ?) project.
The goal of the project is to allow people to set up their own WiFi or internet-based server easily. With "server" I mean a server that would run MySQL, PHP, Perl, ..., and a range of internet applications (phpBB, MediaWiki, ...) An example of a website with a selection of services that would be run can be found at http://aeprojects.tk/
Off course, the topic of the forums, and other services can be freely chosen off course (xhtml page and content can be changed to cover any topic). For example, if one wishes to distribute knowledge of sailing or tying knots, a private WiFi server can be put up at a marina, ...
There are some things however that I feel are important for this sever version:
* the ability to run the OS from RAM (after loading in from a USB stick), see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions_that_run_from_RAM
This is all ready the case with SliTaz, so all ready OK.
* perhaps removing packages so that in stead of several hundreds of mb's in filesize, it becomes much lower (I actually even intent to have the entire OS fit on a USB stick (live USB stick), rather than a cd or dvd (live cd or dvd); by comparison, Slitaz takes up only 42 mb or so (without the packages, the latter which are also 3 gig in size) See http://www.slitaz.org/en/about/ Note that if this won't work (which I suspect, a USB harddisk can be used to eliminate the filesize problem).
The intent is to use 2 usb sticks, one being the usb stick -or usb harddisk- with the OS (non-writable, user permissions blocking writing), and another usb stick to store files on (writable). Note that the usb stick/hd with the OS is only used to load in the OS, the OS would then be read from RAM.
So, I wanted to ask: is there any support for such a project here, and is there support for making a personal server "flavour/remixe" as suggested ?
Personally, I think that for niche OS' like the personal server version I propose -not the main/general purpose version !-, payment can be done by users to the SliTaz community, which could give incentive to people to continue developing SliTaz. Payment can be done, while keeping it free/open source, by simply allowing download after joining a "SliTaz" foundation, ... (for which joining would imply placing a donation first before being allowed to join). Also, by making the OS to have drivers standardly for specific WiFi antenna/access point equipment, ... There's a good possibility of a cooperation with FOSS-friendly shops like ThinkPenguin, ...
PS: perhaps that some suggestions from following articles can also be implemented to the suggested SliTaz flavor:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Improved_UMPC_design
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Linux_adaptations_for_UMPC_design
