Re: [tlug] Good binary distribution

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>]

On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:12:00 +0000
"Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com> wrote:

> > For a firewall you can install it in less than 400 megs. Why is that
> > big and messy?
> 
> Not to be crufty (OK, to be crufty), but 400M seems pretty hefty to me
Oh yeah? Try this with redhat. (damn I'm bashing them again)

> for a dedicated firewall. Seems to me that I can get Gentoo installed
> with just the kernel, base system, OpenSSH, and iptables in 250M or so.
My firewall started out like that. With less than 150 Mb. But let's not
start a dick contest. Everybody wants a usable system.