On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:12 AM, J E wrote:
> The question is what do you gain by removing it? Are you also
> removing perl, gcc, sendmail and the like? Those are bigger worries if
> someone gets in.

There are several advantages to "Just Enough OS", for example if
you are deploying a few thousand virtual copies even a few megabytes
of savings can add up on the SAN. VMWare has a good article:
http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2007/07/get-juiced.html

This seems to be the idea of Red Hat's Appliance OS:
http://www.redhat.com/about/news/prarchive/2007/appliance_platform.html

By the way, I usually do not install gcc, etc, and remove a lot of "base"
packages via kickstart. I leave perl and python for sysadmin purposes.

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