Thank you all for the enormous suggestions and information's ... I think I can go forward with the customization. Many suggested using Debian instead of CentOS... Why I prefer CentOS is that CentOS is more stable than Debian or any other editions... and there will be less dependency problems (I think so)
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-----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 4:43 AM To: The CentOS developers mailing list. Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Using Centos as embedded linux.
Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez wrote:
I have been thinking to slim centos by recompiling every RPM without the docs and several other tricks to make it less fatter.. of course it wont be the real centos but some sort of reduced copy.
rpm supports omitting docs. You might need to fiddle anaconda or yum to choose the right way.
BTW, I found that debian was easier to install in such a hardware
That's my thinking.
Vishak V. Kurup wrote:
Thank you all for the enormous suggestions and information's ... I think I can go forward with the customization. Many suggested using Debian instead of CentOS... Why I prefer CentOS is that CentOS is more stable than Debian or any other editions... and there will be less dependency problems (I think so)
You need to define "stable" to justify that. Debian would say it is more stable.
I don't think CentOS has fewer dependency problems than Debian; I installed a minimal Debian Stable system the other day, then added the ntfs tools and the whole takes 346 Mbytes of disk.
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