Stan Bubrouski wrote:
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 11:33, M A Young wrote:
>The absolute minimum presumably consists of a handful of key
packages
>(such as kernel, glibc, initscripts) plus any dependent packages, which
>prbably comes to 2-300 Mb, though this may be too minimal to do anything
>with.
Not at all. Minimal installs are great on older machines where only
a
couple basic services need to be offered. For instance an old 166MHz
pentium used for a gateway or as an SMTP relay.
Not necessarily only in old hardware. There are a lot of places where a
_spartan_ installation is great idea: web nfs database... servers,
snort , firewalls, ... usually with *dedicated* services.
And there are important benefits: installations, re-installations and
crash recovery are faster, it's more secure, less packages to maintain ...