<quote who="Howard Lowndes">
> Jeff raises a good point here, but just what is "le minimum" that you can
> put on a public server and still expect it to run.
My basic installs generally round off at about 200MB for a pure webserver or
mailserver. You can do better by building your own, but then you lose out on
maintainability, etc. I tend to do most of the fancy stuff on other boxes,
which reduces the software I need on production machines.
> I'm thinking RH here not Deb (and I don't want a war between the two
> camps)
Yeesh, why is this relevant?
We all use the same software, regardless of distribution. Trying to stop
discussion of distribution-specific issues doesn't help anyone (and I don't
understand why such discussion and sharing is seen as 'warring'), and in
this particular instance, it's only relevant to the very, very basic package
requirements that each distro enforces... knowing about those differences is
very important!
It's disappointing that whilst we have users of almost every distribution
involved in SLUG [1], we still have this strange "Don't Mention The War"
thing going on when talking about our distributions. One member even left in
a huff some time ago, deciding that it was easier to put their head in the
sand than contribute or help the situation.
I fully understand that this started a while back when there was a lot of
heavy-handed Debian advocacy on the list, but people matured, realised it
was unnecessary and unhelpful, and SLUG goes on. It's so very annoying that
we still have to make disclaimers...
Let's lose this petty hangup, please!
- Jeff
[1] Don't think we have any Conectiva users, might have a Red Flag user or
two though. ;-)
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