redhat in my experience is one of the harder dists to par down to minimum
installs. Course, I'm a slackware bigot in the linux realm, YMMV. For a
minimum install on slackware one requires the a series and the n series at
least. Though one can go into each series and pick particular packages as
needed/required as well. Having only slight experience with debain and
suse, I can't speak for those dists at all.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 calvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thanks to Jason, Kassad and Askar for responding to my email. I've only
> played with RedHat before, and mostly forced myself to use command line
> than the GUI interface. Maybe its time to try other Linux flavor. Now,
> this FW I want to setup for my home network, I would like the least
> software loaded on this as this is a 32MB, PII 266, 2.5GB computer. I am
> thinking IPTABLES, Tripwire, SNORT, or will that be too much for this
> machine ? Related to this, where can I find information of those required
> to load during OS installation for these 3 apps to work.
>
> Again, Thanks.
>
>
>
> Askar
> > why not switching to a decent Linux distro. hmm may be Slackware :D
> >
> > regards
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:04:29 -0800 (PST), calvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > <calvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I am setting up a FW using IPTABLES. I played with it when RedHat was 7.x
> >> and stopped using it (Linux and IPTABLES) for a long while now. Back then
> >> I modify the file directly to suit my need, I tried recently RedHat 9.0
> and would not allow me to modify it directly.
> >>
> >> I heard that RedHat stopped providing freeware Linux or that they have
> a different version that provide freeware. My question is what freeware
> Linux could I install that will allow me to easily install IPTABLES and
> would provide me flexibility to modify the rules easily.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > (after bouncing head on desk for days trying to get mine working, I'll make
> > your life a little easier)
> >
>
>
>
>
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