On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:12 AM, J E wrote: > The question is what do you gain by removing it? Are you also > removing perl, gcc, sendmail and the like? Those are bigger worries if > someone gets in.
There are several advantages to "Just Enough OS", for example if you are deploying a few thousand virtual copies even a few megabytes of savings can add up on the SAN. VMWare has a good article: http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2007/07/get-juiced.html This seems to be the idea of Red Hat's Appliance OS: http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/appliance_platform.html By the way, I usually do not install gcc, etc, and remove a lot of "base" packages via kickstart. I leave perl and python for sysadmin purposes. _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
