[SATLUG] A Break Through for Linux

[Al Castanoli]

Bruce Dubbs wrote:

: dubose at texas.net wrote:

[...]

:> I remember the time when we would say the Linux would run on 32 M RAM

:> and would always work on very low amounts of RAM where MS took more
and :> more RAM.  

:> What happened to Linux?

: What happened was RedHat.  They are trying to emulate Windows... try
to 
: add every conceivable application.  You just have to do an `ps -ef` to

: see that they have a tonn of daemons running.  OTOH, I just set up a 
: series of secure servers using Linux From Scratch as a base and the 
: total *disk* space was 250MB without trying very hard. For details
see:

: http://sol.sac.accd.edu/~bdubbs/secure-linux.pdf

: Note:  Its 160 pages, 0.5MB.

:  -- Bruce

That looks like a good generic server install, but some of us are
constrained to using RHEL.  On the server I built last week, for
example, to run Oracle 10g AS, the smallest server I could use was RHEL
2.1, which is a tad smaller than a normal Fedora 2 install, but still
bigger than the RH 9 installs we could use for Oracle 9i AS.  Even the
commercial software houses are demanding more bloatware bundled in the
OS these days.

-- 
Al Castanoli | afcasta at satlug.org or afcasta at texas.net
  Computers save time like kudzu prevents soil erosion.