Karanbir Singh wrote:
Puneet Goel wrote:
I need a light version of CentOS (I am very much particular about OS identity and the final product will retain the parent OS identity and quality). Can you provide me some kickstart file or something else which can help me in making a final thing. I do not need eye candies/OpenOffice/Adobe flash/Games/Media Player etc. Just a usable desktop, a lightweight file browser and desktop with icons (may be XFE). Redundant locale, man, doc, /lib/modules etc. will be removed as well.
Take a look at the CentOS-5.2 LiveCD - thats a good place to start, Can you work with that ? Its got a fully functional gnome desktop with a lot of other things that you can get rid of if you dont need. I've seen usable CentOS + Gnome desktops running from a 480MB squashfs store.
The key here would be to do something in a compressed system like squashfs ... then you can do 2-3 GB of stuff in 500MB. However, there is going to be some performance hit in doing that. You can't get a 100 pounds of sugar in a 10 pound sack :D