Fedora as Appliance
Lai Zit Seng
lzs at pobox.com
Mon Jun 27 00:36:19 UTC 2005
Imho, your customized appliance distribution would probably be a lot
more lightweight and compact if you build from something very basic,
rather than start from Fedora and strip things out from there. Unless
the "compactness" is not a requirement for your appliance :) But of
course it'll probably be much easier to strip things out of Fedora :)
Regards,
.lzs
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http://zitseng.com/
Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
> My goal: To create a custom distribution of Linux (hopefully using
> Fedora) to act strictly as a SMTP, POP, and web server. I want to
> essentially try building a Fedora-based internet appliance for my mail
> server.
>
> I want to build a Java/JSP-based email server... Java for the middle
> "worker" processes and JSP for configuration. I have already build the
> majority of Java utilities, that will function behind the scenes, and am
> now working on the JSP-based web application to configure the various
> Java components. I would hope to reuse existing reliable packages for
> the SMTP & POP3 pieces (for now).
>
> I am looking for recommendations on the following...
>
> 1. Recommendations for the SMTP & POP3 daemons / packages;
> 2. Recommendations on the minimum packages needed for this;
> 3. Recommendations on good "how to" articles for building custom
> distributions; and,
> 4. Anything else that may be helpful.
>
> As an FYI, I am building the Java/JSP pieces on Windows and testing on a
> FC4 virtual machine using VMWare. I have an older machine that ran FC2
> & FC3 perfectly. Everything that is non-essential has been stripped out
> of the box (floppy, firewire, USB, sound card, etc.). Once I am done
> with this, I will be installing on that older box.
>
> Thanx,
> Ryan
>
>
>
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