Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On 25.10.2011 10:53, Per Jessen wrote:
For background see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669498
For me, the objective in using the minimum server select is to have a _fast_ installation that is a good general basis for a (usually headless) server.
Which means: nothing installed but sshd. Because nobody knows what kind of services you want to serve
Yes, that is pretty much correct. There are some basic services needed by the system itself though (postfix, nscd, acpid, dhcpcd, syslog, cron, ntp etc).
The resulting size of the installed system is largely irrelevant as a server will always have sufficient space.
Haha! Tell this to our 7000 VMs. Of course there is sufficient space, but it comes with a hefty price tag.
Okay, a point worth considering. Would a 1Gb root filesystem be too much?
Additional software/services (mysql, cifs, apache, bind, dhcp, cups, whatever) are not included in the selection, those are for the user to chose or add later.
Exactly.
The installed system must be generally suitable as a server, i.e. when I ssh to it for maintenance or tracing/debugging, I don't want to be missing anything.
This contradicts your previous sentence.
How? I don't have a complete list ready, but I want things like vim, man, strace, tcpdump and bind-utils available. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.6°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org