Re: Stripping down Debian Squeeze
On Sat, January 14, 2012 3:33 am, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> HI,
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:56:09PM +0530, 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.
>
> For such system, all desktop application should go. More for security
> and space than performance.
>
> You can remove almost everything but base system as long as you keep
> dependency of these programs and required kernel modules for your
> hardware. Oh, keeping aptitude and vim will help your productivity.
>
> This is something you do not get quick short answer... try and learn
> yourself using tools such as aptitude.
>
> Osamu
I still think the best option is to just install from netinst and only
install what you need, as someone else suggested.
It's what I do.
./tony
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