Dave,
my main fear would be the patches that might be needed in the future.
Are you willing to have an eye on everything? There are much people patching
redhat rpms for security holes and so on. I'm not sure if this bothers
us if you would use an different system. Most patched rpms might not run.
Why don't you disable X on installation ;)
let me know
regards
jimmy
am [Thu, 5 Apr 2001 23:43:50 +0200] schrieb "Dave Cost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> This idea has been in my mind for some time now, so I would like to bounce
> it on the list.
>
> We need a simple, small linux system to replicate on the virtual servers
> right? We don't need X, we don't need configuration programs.
>
> Then why we use Redhat. I think mainly for 2 reasons:
>
> 1. It's simple to install
> 2. It supports rpms which makes us lazy....
>
> However it's not properly server-oriented (yes I know. I've been running it
> on servers for many years now).
>
> This is why I looked in the past on rocklinux and few others.
> Now I discovered this tiny distro that lacks X :-)
> http://www.trustix.net/products/trustix-1.2/
>
> and also this one looks promising (a little more complete):
> http://www.beehive.nu/
>
>
> Ideally I would like to have good scripts to generate the skel from a proven
> good underlying system (much like freebsd's jail).
>
> Then I would compile freevsd from source and manually install the (x)inetd
> extensions.
>
> Then I hope to end up with the final server.
>
> Any toughts?
>
> Dave
>
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