[CLUE-Tech] Software Audit

[mike havlicek]

Hi All,

Many relevent points have been brought out on this
thread. I was off somewhere else .. hehe.

For whatever it is worth I think all suggestions were
good. ( Well most :)

The point I was getting at was supporting existing
RedHat systems or other rpm based systems.

As we all know RH9 was the last "free" release of red
hat. The EOL I think was around june. The distro is
"supported" thru an unditermined amounted time with
fedora legacy depending upon interest. ( Not
monetary:)

I by no means am a Red Hat advocate . So please don't
cut on me for that ... I prefer to build my own
systems in the spirit of old pc hobby folks. 

The fact is that RedHat is here. But I don't like
talking with IT friends across the country who can't
deal with the changes and are reverting to windows.
Just because being a sysadmin is too hard.

I mentioned software audit.....

read all that you find from from rpm -qa >
yourpacks.txt

then do rpm -qil on each of them ...

Then nuke em ... as needed ... maybe none! but know
what you are running.

-Mike

That is what I was talking about


--- Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:

> mike havlicek wrote:
> 
> > I want to strip this system clean of most
> "Desktop"
> > related stuff :) Just enough to let me strip the
> > system if you know what I mean :)
> 
> Debian is the "grand-daddy" of stripped down
> distros, for sure.  If 
> you're willing to go through the learning curve, a
> properly bootstrapped 
> Debian system is about as small as you can possibly
> get in a binary distro.
> 
> Gentoo of course, is similar, but source-based.
> 
> And there's always http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
> if you're really 
> hard-core about it!  ;-)
> 
> Or any of the hundreds of distros at
> http://www.distrowatch.org, 
> literally 50-75 of them claim to be "minimal".
> 
> Just thoughts... if you're really going for
> stripped, RedHat's "minimal" 
> installation is good, but there are "more stripped"
> alternatives, certainly.
> 
> --
> Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com
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