04-Dec-2003 fedora-devel-list-request(a)redhat.com:
Subject: Re: Fedora minimal install option
From: Stan Bubrouski <stan(a)ccs.neu.edu>
Not at all. Minimal installs are great on older machines where only a
couple basic services need to be offered. For instance an old 166MHz
pentium used for a gateway or as an SMTP relay.
Yes, that is it! :)
Why should I install those packages what I will never use on the machine? :o
From: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose(a)wanadoo.es>
Not necessarily only in old hardware. There are a lot of places where a
_spartan_ installation is great idea: web nfs database... servers,
snort , firewalls, ... usually with *dedicated* services.
And there are important benefits: installations, re-installations and
crash recovery are faster, it's more secure, less packages to maintain ...
Yes, that is it too!
It will be more secure without the unnecessary packages!
From: Rui Miguel Seabra <rms(a)1407.org>
Irrelevant question.
The relevant questions are:
Is so much software needed in a Minimal Installation? No
Can Fedora Core do better? Certainly so.
Should it? I think so.
Yes, that is it!
From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)welho.com>
FWIW I have a P90 box with 450MB disk running FC1 as a gw/firewall.. and
diskspace isn't even tight (relatively speaking of course :) . though I
must confess it was originally installed as RH7.2 IIRC and then over time
upgraded with apt, later anacondas don't run since its got just 32MB
memory.
Ohh yes. RedHat/Fedora should have a minimal kernel (like other linux
distributions) for the installation progress and otherwise. :)
Bye!
Gabor