Am 29.06.2015 um 19:40 schrieb Gordon Messmer <gordon.mess...@gmail.com>: > On 06/29/2015 06:46 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >> Even considering a minimal CentOS install, is that still less minimal than >> e.g. Smoothwall or Ipcop? > > Yes, a minimal install of CentOS is probably larger (less minimal) than a > specialized distribution.
our dedicated DNS systems are minimal without effort (234 packages / 1,1GB total), with more effort we could reduce it under 1GB (logfiles are included). >> In my world, security has a price and, and that might be the need to learn >> another distro in order to minimize security issues (and maybe as in this >> case minimize attack-surfaces). > > When all of your systems are one OS, you can more easily build an > infrastructure that provides backups, security and bug fix updates, > monitoring, etc for all of your systems. Specialized devices are often left > out when admins set up infrastructure to provide those services for their > primary systems. That's one way that a general purpose OS can be > significantly better than a specialized OS. +1 -- LF _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
