Miles O'Neal wrote:
Salvador Aguinaga said...
|I've wondered if any of you have used scientific linux on a x86 hardware to
|run a single application ( like an embedded OS ) and disable updates and
|remove unneeded packages?
Sure, at least a dozen times.
|Or if you there is a better alternative to accomplish the same thing.
That depends on what you are trying to do with it.
For instance when I needed a bridging firewall a
few years back, there was no east way to do that
with SL (I tried for 2 day), so I gave up and used
freesco.
But, just for example, we've done this with DMZ
systems, fileservers, and a handful of others.
Very straightforward; just install what you need,
remove the extras it installed anyway, and only
turn on the minimum services necessary.
Update manually as needed.
Works fine.
If SL does what you want, that's fine. For a smaller image, rpm supports
omitting documentation, though I haven't seen a way of doing that via
yum. It's something you might wish to explore.
Debian has an rpmstrap script that's part of something else that can be
used to create a (CentOS and so probably SL) image. That could be
brutalised to do what you want.
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