Is there a Linux distro that will easily run "embedded style" on a Raspberry Pi?

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Published on 2012-09-12T03:33:40Z Indexed on 2012/09/12 3:40 UTC
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I need a Linux distro that will give me the following:

Run on a Raspberry Pi
Can reliably survive power loss (like via a read-only filesystem)

I've been able to hunt down some documentation on how to change a regular Linux distro over to read-only mode. I was hoping that there would be a distro already built that was designed to run in an embedded environment.

I don't need many packages or drivers, just enough to have the Pi working with USB/Ethernet. I don't need any GUI interface or anything, this will just be running a custom service built in C.

Does anyone know of a distro that would fit?

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