On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
There is obviously more than one solution here, so I'm looking for
recommendations. We care about security; we don't want to run any
services we don't need, etc. Reliability is key, so your uncle's
friend's
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
There is obviously more than one solution here, so I'm looking for
recommendations. We care about security; we don't want to run any
services we don't need, etc. Reliability is key, so your uncle's
friend's
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:01:09PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
OK, thanks. BTW, how does that differ from running tasksel and not
selecting any tasks? Or is that even possible?
If you run tasksel and do not select any tasks, you get packages of priority
'standard' and higher.
--
- mdz
On Friday 18 October 2002 03:46 pm, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
Now, we're looking to upgrade the Linux on these thin clients. I like
Debian, so that's one obvious choice. However, a standard Debian
install (e.g. what I
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 01:01:09PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
OK, thanks. BTW, how does that differ from running tasksel and not
selecting any tasks? Or is that even possible?
If you run tasksel and do not select any tasks, you get packages of priority
'standard' and higher.
--
- mdz
Towards the end of the Debian installation process, when you're asked
whether you want to run tasksel or dselect, you can choose dselect
and
exit it before installing any packages. If you do that, you're left
with a really minimal install. You might be able to base your work
on
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
Now, we're looking to upgrade the Linux on these thin clients. I like
Debian, so that's one obvious choice. However, a standard Debian
install (e.g. what I run on my machine) gives us much more than we
need. This isn't
Towards the end of the Debian installation process, when you're asked
whether you want to run tasksel or dselect, you can choose dselect
and
exit it before installing any packages. If you do that, you're left
with a really minimal install. You might be able to base your work
on
this.
This is unrelated to any security patches / exploits, hence
off-topic. I'm posting here mostly because it seems like the right
crowd for this sort of problem. If this offends you, let me know and
I'll find a different venue in the future.
OK. We're a large network running
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
Now, we're looking to upgrade the Linux on these thin clients. I like
Debian, so that's one obvious choice. However, a standard Debian
install (e.g. what I run on my machine) gives us much more than we
need.
Towards
OK, thanks. BTW, how does that differ from running tasksel and not
selecting any tasks? Or is that even possible?
-chris
Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
Now, we're looking to upgrade the Linux on these thin
* Chris Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021018 22:43]:
RedHat), with an NFS-mounted root fs. They run almost nothing
locally: currently an X server, sshd, and possibly some music forwarding
daemon in the future, so users can listen to tunes on their thin
clients using software
This is unrelated to any security patches / exploits, hence
off-topic. I'm posting here mostly because it seems like the right
crowd for this sort of problem. If this offends you, let me know and
I'll find a different venue in the future.
OK. We're a large network running
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
Now, we're looking to upgrade the Linux on these thin clients. I like
Debian, so that's one obvious choice. However, a standard Debian
install (e.g. what I run on my machine) gives us much more than we
need.
Towards
OK, thanks. BTW, how does that differ from running tasksel and not
selecting any tasks? Or is that even possible?
-chris
Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
Now, we're looking to upgrade the Linux on these thin
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
Now, we're looking to upgrade the Linux on these thin clients. I like
Debian, so that's one obvious choice. However, a standard Debian
install (e.g. what I run on my machine) gives us much more than we
need. This isn't
* Chris Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021018 22:43]:
RedHat), with an NFS-mounted root fs. They run almost nothing
locally: currently an X server, sshd, and possibly some music forwarding
daemon in the future, so users can listen to tunes on their thin
clients using software
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