> 2.) a minimum selection of > software packages with SLES8 ( for e.g. a web- or FTP server?)
A quick perusal of the SUSE website shows that you seem to have a choice of Apache, Apache or Apache in SLES8. Or anything that you decide to try and build and install yourself which SUSE chose not to.
FTP servers: there seems to be pure-ftpd and vsftpd. pure-ftp is pretty easy to set up in principle, i.e. it was for me. Dunno about vsftpd, not used it.
As always, you should consider security when making a choice. Read the docs and see what they offer.
It struck me that what I do when installing SUSE on the x86 boxes is use YaST to remove those things that I don't want (e.g. infra-red, ISDN etc.) As always, it depends(1) on what you think you need. I tend to get the base install done and then use YaST to remove those extras afterwards. Doesn't take too long to remove the obvious things. Any pre-reqs will be flagged.
Rod
(1) I really wish I'd trademarked this before Bitner did (along with this internet superhighway stuff that I was proposing in the late 70s). I'd be the one with lots of money now instead of him!
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