Modern Linux distro on an empeg?

I keep finding new things around here that I want to control and or monitor. Usually, I just wire them into zippy (our 24/7 mini-itx server) via some USB-controlled GPIO pins or whatnot.

But with a sizeable stack of empegs here, I'm thinking now of making use of their compact size, built-in ethernet, graphical display, and general portability. Several projects come to mind.

But this will mean augmenting or replacing the stock software, with a more full-featured Linux distro.

Now I do have the full Debian Potato (for ARM) here, and could just use that, I suppose. It's pretty much the same vintage as the factory software, ISTR.

But has anyone here put something much newer onto an empeg?

??

And speaking of which.. does anyone here still have a good copy of the basic debian install: debian-image.990822.tar.gz


Mine suffers from bitrot.

Sounds like a cool idea

here

Peachy. Thanks.

NOTE: it was doubly gzip'd.