On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 14:01, Dennis Clarke wrote: > I like to perform little experiments. Its my nature. ... > So I wondered to myself .. just how small a footprint can SXCR have? > > I know that Eric Bootilier did some interesting work with the reduced core > install cluster and I was thinking of starting there and then ripping out > packages until the system fell over or became just barely useable.
I spent some time on this too, at about the same time Eric was doing his stuff. I got production servers down to 74 packages in S10 - and you could slash that quite a bit further if you don't mind losing functionality. http://www.petertribble.co.uk/Solaris/miniinstall.html -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
