[lug] There must be a better way

[phutnick at pop.peakpeak.com]

> Each company, it seems, has their own idea 
> and way of creating a Linux box and all of 
> them seem to modify endless files to reflect 
> their view/logos and wishes regardless of 
> what the end user really wants. 
> 
> RPM's from SuSE that wont work on Red Hat 
> for example because of diff file mods to 
> the standard tar source files.
> 
> There must be a better way than this!

You know, no one cares if you don't use the package system of your distro ;-)  

When I set up a "secure, purpose built server" I do it by doing a VERY basic
install of RH.  Replace the compiler by the latest version from source, replace
the kernel with a custom build for the system, then add the server software I
need (Apache, Bind, Sendmail, Samba, whatever) also from source.

I don't do this very freqently, so it isn't worth my while to duplicate the
system (IOW, by the time I need to do the next one all the software is out of
date) but if it were I'd probably do it with an ISO and Tom's Root Boot.

-Peter

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