Re: [OT] secure, minimal Debian installation for linux-based thin clients?
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:41:37PM -0700, Chris Majewski wrote:
> Now, we're looking to upgrade the Linux on these thin clients. I like
> Debian, so that's one obvious choice. However, a standard Debian
> install (e.g. what I run on my machine) gives us much more than we
> need. This isn't fatal, since the filesystem is NFS-mounted, but it's
> not clean, either. Is there a Debian-derived minimal distribution? Or
> should we just install the base Debian system, add X via tasksel, and
> add/remove remaining items with dselect or apt-get?
You might want to drop in on the Debian Beowulf crowd, since
a beowulf is basically a whole lot of thin clients. pbuilder
is useful for defining your own base.tgz file if you want
to go that way.
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