[lug] Minimal Linux?

Randy Arabie rrarabie at arabie.org
Wed Sep 4 15:43:46 MDT 2002


On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 David.Menges at UCHSC.edu wrote:

> I'm building a Linux web server and would like to hear from anyone that has
> minimized what software gets loaded when Linux is built.  The goal is mainly
> security, but simplicity, performance, etc. wouldn't be bad either.  I have
> searched the archives and web sites and not found anything, so maybe no one
> bothers with this.

There are several distributions that cater to this sort of situation - Gentoo 
and LFS (Linux From Scratch).

If you don't build it, it won't get installed.  I've never used/installed LFS,
but I've got a Gentoo system.  I like it.
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Cheerio!
        
Randy




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