7 Dec
2005
7 Dec
'05
10:50 a.m.
On 12/7/05, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote:
Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
Yeah. I know. For servers I choose custom install, and NOT select even
a SINGLE package. After the final reboot, I'll then remove the
unwanted stuff manually.
As far a bloat is concerned, just blast KDE/Qt,
Gnome/GTK out and just
use plain X, twm, xterm, Firefox. That's it. If even that is still too
"bloaty", do without X, go console full console mode and stick to
That's all well and good until you DESELECT X during installation and yet it
ends up getting installed anyway.
Some distros are simply bloated, particularly any Redhat distro (or derivative)
in the last 5 years. I've stopped installing Redhat or Fedora for that reason.
My next distro will either be LFS or Gentoo so that I have control over the
bloat -- if it's bloated, at least it will be my fault!
Console/framebuffer is like textmode but 128 columns by 47 rows.
I don't need screen because you can have 6 virtual consoles.
This is of course assuming you have a monitor and a video adapter. If
you're on a serial console with a VT100 (i.e. a single session), then
screen is a godsend.
p.s. I typically go around using console mode for
at least a couple of
hours everyday. Console mode with framebuffer at 1024x768 is great!!
:-)
Textmode + screen package is better :-)