Minimal server distros

[Christos Ricudis]

Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos wrote:

>Euxaristo olous gia tis apantiseis.
>
>H erotisi den eixe san stoxo ena dimiourgithei distro-war.
>Profanos ola ta distros mporoun me ligo-polu (eos kai para polu!) kopo na 
>kanoun ti douleia enos tetoiou server.
>
>Gia enan production server omos apaiteitai ena pragmatika hardened systima, 
>ktismeno apo ta "themelia". H erotisi mou itan perissotero an exei kanei 
>kaneis idi kati tetoio kai poio distro xrisimopoiise.
>  
>

Egw genikws xrhsimopoiw debian - arxizw me ena sarge h ena knoppix kai 
aplws afairw o,ti den xreiazomai. Kala logia akoyw kai apo tous builders 
tou gentoo (den yparxei akoma kanenas pou na *xrhsimopoiei* gentoo, oloi 
akoma compile to kanoyn).

O,tidhpote apaitei parapanw kopo, aplws den aksizei ton kopo - ektos an 
exeis hard constraints. Kai otan lew hard constraints, ennow "exw ena 
embedded systhma me 64MB flash kai 16MB ram  kai PREPEI na tou strimwksw 
o,ti xreiazetai gia na doulepsei", kai oxi "ena pragmatika 'hardened' 
systhma sthnetai ek 8emeliwn" - protash poy gia mena einai toso 
genikeymenh pou de shmainei apolytws tipota.

Genika oi Linux distributors kseroun th douleia tous. Yparxei kapoios 
logos o kosmos xrhsimopoiei gentoo, debian, redhat, suse, slackware, 
freebsd, ktl ktl kai ta projects tou styl "Mhtsoulinux 2.3 
built-from-scratch" synh8ws apotygxanoyn patagwdws. To na sthseis kati 
ek ba8rwn einai poly kalh ASKHSH gia na deis pws akribws leitourgei ena 
unix systhma sthn olothta tou, alla ws ekei. Th douleia sou na thn 
kaneis me standard ergaleia.

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