Karanbir Singh wrote: > Puneet Goel wrote: >> I need a light version of CentOS (I am very much particular >> about OS identity and the final product will retain the parent OS >> identity and quality). Can you provide me some kickstart file or >> something else which can help me in making a final thing. I do not >> need eye candies/OpenOffice/Adobe flash/Games/Media Player etc. Just a >> usable desktop, a lightweight file browser and desktop with icons (may >> be XFE). Redundant locale, man, doc, /lib/modules etc. will be removed >> as well. > > Take a look at the CentOS-5.2 LiveCD - thats a good place to start, Can > you work with that ? Its got a fully functional gnome desktop with a lot > of other things that you can get rid of if you dont need. I've seen > usable CentOS + Gnome desktops running from a 480MB squashfs store. > >
The key here would be to do something in a compressed system like squashfs ... then you can do 2-3 GB of stuff in 500MB. However, there is going to be some performance hit in doing that. You can't get a 100 pounds of sugar in a 10 pound sack :D
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