[SATLUG] A Break Through for Linux

[Paul S. Bains]

All of the uneeded services in RH can be turned off just like any other
distro. There are plenty of distros out there that will run in a small
amount of RAM - www.distrowatch.com lists several of them. They are very
small installs, and have small ram usage. What drives disc and ram usage
up are GUI elements. The more intricate the GUI, the larger the ram and
disc space requirements.

RH has probably done what they have done to attract a larger audience of
users. No harm in that. On the flip-side, they should probably better
evaluate the services that are turned on by default, and tailor them for
the average user. That might help. 


On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:13:09 -0500
Al Castanoli <afcasta at texas.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
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