RE: [tlug] Good binary distribution

["James Cluff" <jc@example.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Glover [mailto:jmglov@example.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:45 PM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: Re: [tlug] Good binary distribution


Quoth Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>:

> "Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.

>Seems to me this is rather the opposite... "My firewall is smaller that
yours!"
>;)

>Seriously, though, for a dedicated firewall, one of the greatest strides
you
>can make towards security is to prune it down to the absolute minimum.
After
>all, software that ain't installed can't be exploited. Removing compilers
(Perl
>included) is also a great idea. You are a coder. Think of all the fun you
can
>have with a C compiler. :)

>-Josh


I haven't read the rest of the 30 or so mails on this thread but i would
like to mention that Astaro Security linux is less than 100MB and I think it
is free for home use.  I am using it commercially and quite like it

James