Michael Dexter wrote:
> 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.
I have three separate use cases in mind:
1. My home systems for which I have nobody to blame if they go
belly up.
2. Some standalone systems at church used for elementary school
students.
Not only will networking be disabled but I'm considering not
installing
drivers for WiFi, Bluetooth and Ethernet.
3. The most difficult case will be for a friend. Evidently I did
more to
tout Linux than I realized. A few weeks ago he sent me a
older spare
laptop asking me to do a demonstrative install. That one
will need
"training wheels" in spade. I've known him for over 40 years.
>
> 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.
I suspect I've gotten myself locked into Debian. Do BSDs have
equivalents of Debian repositories and apt-get or Synaptic?
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