Re: Distribution Choice

[Patrick Lang <patricklang () mail utexas edu>]

Slackware is your friend.  We use it for all the honeynet machines here 
at UT Austin.  You can select what you want, its very easy to get a 
barebones install, and you can remove the dev tools if you wish.  Plus, 
it installs much quicker than Gentoo.

We only use Gentoo for 1 thing - the Live CD, and for one purpose only 
- Partimage.  We image all of our machines incase we need a full backup 
to compare to a cracked machine.

Patrick

On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 17:22 US/Central, Richard Stevens wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday 27 May 2003 23:56, Erik S. Johansen wrote:
> > I'd definitely suggest gentoo. It's a very barebone install, which 
> > you add
> > only your choice of software too. Although it takes a little time to
> > install, it's simple to customize, and it offers a quite wide range of
> > kernels within the package system.
>
> I'm using Gentoo on my desktop and I thought about using it on my 
> Firewall,
> too but what kept me from doing so is that preferably I'd like to not 
> have
> any development tools on that system.
>
> Is there a way to use Gentoo without having devel tools installed? If 
> so, do
> you have a link to further reading about that.
>
> I always thought just about anything depends on development tools.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
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