RE: [Devil-linux-develop] Different release download options.

[Dean N. <di...@ti...>]

>
>I just got done removing most of the stuff that is not useful for a
>firewall (servers, compilers, email, ...) and am running a fresh compile
>to see the size of the resulting ISO.
>
>I'll be interesting to see how small of a USB stick is required for a
>firewall like this.  Getting it under 256MB shouldn't be a problem.
>Under 128MB would be great, but I'm not real hopeful.

I support the concept (see my previous emails commenting that the size of
Devil-Linux was starting to be a problem - especially when we considered USB
pen drives), but I would suggest that Postfix server be included.

As I have previously commented, I use only DHCP, IPTables, and Postfix (plus
various other utilities).  (I want to use ClamAV and SAGATOR - but I haven't
tried RC1 yet to see if I can get them to fit into 64MB).  I can easily see
that being a "standard" configuration for most people.

One of the things that can be done (and that I actually do) is to strip a
lot of the sample configuration files (especially from the Postfix
directory!) from the etc.tar.bz2 that I create.  We may want to consider
distributing a "full" etc.tar.bz2 containing all of the sample files, and
striped down version.  Of course, I say that because I build and maintain my
Devil-Linux configuration on another box....

Dean Nedelman
TimeLord Consulting