On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 16:44, Jason Opperisano wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 17:38, R. DuFresne wrote: > > 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. > > suse has a minimal install, which is nice. customizing a kernel in suse > is not. > > the ultimate minimalistic install; IMHO, is gentoo. not for the > impatient types though. There are several distributions already built to be firewall/routers. Wade through http://www.distrowatch.com when you have time to kill, but IPcop, smoothwall, devil-linux, Livecd router, sentryfirewall, clarkconnect, or SMEserver would probably work without having to fight with them to remove stuff. --- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
