Walltop

WallTop computers... recycle an old laptop by removing all the extraneous parts such as the cdrom drive, floppy drive, (dead) battery and then hanging it on the wall.

I am building one from an old Dell Inspiron 3700.

Operating system

I looked at using Debian, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux (which immediately panics on boot), and Movix. I decided I might as well stick with Ubuntu so I am building a custom Live CD. I will then transfer it to a Compact Flash card, which will be plugged into an adapter and replace the incredibly noisy stock 4200 rpm hard drive.

See http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-customize-your-ubuntu-live-cd-p1

Packages to remove from the stock image.

apt-get remove --purge gnome-games
# all non-English language packs
apt-get remove --purge `dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package}\n' | grep language-pack | egrep -v '\-en'`

apt-get remove --purge `dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package}\n' | grep openoffice`

apt-get remove --purge `dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package}\n' | grep gnome`

apt-get remove --purge  evolution nautilis

apt-get remove --purge cdparanoia cdrdao cupsys diveintopython docbook-xml 

dvd+rw-tools f-spot firefox ftp ghostscript gimp ispell

apt-get remove --purge gcc make nano ntfs=3g ntfsprogs 

apt-get remove --purge logrotate