I am working on building a good Ubuntu Live ATI ISO file today in an attempt to eliminate all of the hard drives by using USB thumb drives, that'll save on electricity as well as hardware costs going forward.
I'm actually doing the same right now. How far along are you with it? I'm stripping it down to use openbox wm and using 12.10 w/ 3.8.2 kernel. Having it set up to load into ram so that I can pull the stick and boot another machine. Also apache and psql with a web interface so you can log in over LAN and check status. The web interface is whats taking most of the time though. But at least it will be responsive so i can check it on my phone if i decide to open ports on my router. PM me if you wanna compare notes.
Are you guys familiar with BAMT?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=65915.0The website is dead, but the download mirrors are still working.
Yep, I'm familiar with BAMT. I believe BAMT 0.5 was released Feb '12 so I assumed development had halted. Sounded a little dated for my taste. I tend to roll my own distros when the task at hand can benefit from it. I'll release it to the forums after it's been battle tested. Also need to throw together a site and set up some mirrors before I put it out there, but thats the easy part.