[Novalug] Recommend a bacteria-sized server OS?

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

Versus less than 5 minutes for a kickstart install. Now it's certainly 
possible that he may want to use templates for new VMs, but he also 
might want to build each VM from scratch.

JIM

On 4/28/2012 6:00 AM, William Sutton wrote:
> Not necessarily.  The basic core downloads in a bzip'd tar file.  
> Anything extra may require compiling but unless you're using a 486 
> class machine should go faster than "a few weeks".  Even compiling all 
> of the X dependencies plus Enlightenment on my piece of junk 
> single-core P3/P4 at work only took a day and a half.
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, James Ewing Cottrell 3rd wrote:
>
>> On 4/26/2012 3:35 PM, William Sutton wrote:
>>> You can also build a reasonably small Gentoo system, without all the 
>>> Red Hat overhead.
>>>
>>> William Sutton
>>>
>> Yes, but then you have to wait a few weeks while your compiles finish.
>>
>> Installing only the Core group gives you a pretty small distro.
>>
>> JIM
>>
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