On Vi, 13 ian 12, 14:17:54, David Goodenough wrote: > On Friday 13 Jan 2012, Bijoy Lobo wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I > > would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It would > > be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any software within the > > OS which i can uninstall for better performance would certainly help me. > Have you looked at EmDebian (emdebian.org). It comes in two flavours (or > it did last time I looked), Crush and Grip. It removes things like man > pages and generally squashes things down as small as possible while > maintaining Debian compatability and doing things the "Debian Way"(TM). While it does make sense to delete a lot of stuff on a machine running from very limited storage, it just occurred to me that you can shoot yourself in the foot nicely if that machine is providing your internet access and you don't have a copy of those docs on another machine ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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