On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Richard Owlett wrote: > Its more a philosophical than strictly technical requirement. Debian > developers are *POWER* users and presume everyone has terabyte storage, > multi GHz multi-processors, and massive bandwidth. I take "small is > ultimate elegance" in the other extreme. That my motivation for > investigating debootstrap and multistrap.
Richard, You can configure any distribution to be as minimal as you wish ... > My major problem there is where to I find a list. In /etc you'll find a subdirectory with the services available. In Slackware it's /rc.d which contains 82 scripts for services. Other distributions might have those scripts in a directory called services/ or something similar. Take a look at /etc and you'll find them. > Its probably not as much of a problem in Linux, but I've had Windows > programs "helpfully" call home for updates etc. Linux won't call anyone unless you delibertely set it to do so. I may well be wrong, but my assumption is that any such automation is off by default. > In an ideal world. I've known them for ~40 years and know how hard not to > push. He is in an area of Upstate New York with a selection of user groups > and SIGs. I was going to send him a selection of live CDs to play with. > But yesterday I got an email telling me to expect his spare laptop with > implied instruction of "fill 'er up". From what I've read over the last few years one of the ubuntus would be the distribution to put on his system. You can install it off the live cdrom and it is user-centric rather than server-centric by default. He should also find plenty of local assistance should he need it. If you cycle back above and look in /etc/ where services are found you can decide what to have on at boot-up for him. > I'm not quite being paranoid. I'm thinking in terms of preventing someone > from using a USB Bluetooth or WiFi adapter they have brought in. Block the ports; open the case and disconnect them or put a piece of tape over the outside. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
