On 12/8/14 11:20 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > The short form of my personal goal is: > 1. bring back*PERSONAL* to personal computing. > Primary implication - shall not be capable of being a > network server. > Secondary implication - only one person will ever be the > operator. > 2. understand Linux internals > 3. minimal number of modules, secondarily minimize size of > footprint
I thought exactly that when I first discovered Unix but with the arrival of the Web, it became increasingly clear that everything will be TCP/IP networked even if only on the LAN or even localhost. Call it Internet of Things (I prefer a more vulgar term given the security implications) but ever since the arrival of desktops like GNOME and KDE, the Unix/network server parts have been a tiny portion of the system. That part will fit on a Raspberry Pi/fad device of choice. That said, you seem to have a sense of Unix and I suggest you try PC-BSD and then pair it down to raw FreeBSD once you have identified what you do and do not want. This is exactly what I did with Red Hat 5.2 way back in the day. With the different that *BSD does not have LinuxConf thrashing configuration files unrelated to the task at hand. Michael _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
