I agree with Fred completely. I'd like Fred to concentrate on making Rivendell even better instead of messing around with Cent-OS's default configuration.
Don't worry, unlike Windows where it seems like the more you add/install into it the slower and more troublesome it becomes, Linux distributions, especially ones like CentOS seem to work the best with the default "full install". Even if you are never going to use all the extra web server software, software development suites, and office productivity software in that default install, it doesn't seem to hurt anything that it is there, besides if you ever feel you need to do something like pull up a PDF document on your Rivendell computer, it is nice to know that there is software already installed to do it. Of course you are always free to build up your own Linux distro (of your choice) and install Rivendell on it yourself. Note that by doing so, you are basically "going it alone" as in don't expect much help dealing with strange distro dependent issues getting Rivendell running. I did go this route as I'm running Rivendell on Debian "stable" (was "Squeeze", now "Wheezy") with very good success. My OS install, including some stuff not available in CentOS, but not including all my audio files (which are on a separate partition) is about 2-GB in size. >Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:46:20 -0500 >From: Fred Gleason <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >To: Rivendell Users Group ><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >Subject: Re: [RDD] Appliance DVD >Message-ID: ><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 >On Feb 21, 2014, at 09:36 44, Gavin Stephens ><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> I was having a poke around in the downloads area. The DVD seems very large >> from the old cd appliance. Is this just because of the OS bloat? >That, and maintainer laziness. :) >Pulling all of the ?unneeded? packages out of the ISO is a labor-intensive and >error-prone process; if you get it wrong, the resulting DVD is >basically >unusable. So I?ve basically left it as stock CentOS 6.4, with the relevant >Rivendell and Kickstart components added.
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