Open Distributed Data Acquisition System Linux is a mini distribution of GNU/Linux intended for use on the ODDAS project. It contains a shell and some basic commands plus servers for HTTP, FTP and telnet. It also includes the capability to perform syslog over the network, and contains a very simple mail program which allows alerts to be forwarded across the network. The whole thing squeezes into about 3M of flash on an Intel [3-6]86 processor.