F8t3 - Minimal services to run?

[Keith Roberts]

What are the minimal system services I need for a 'working' 
system please?

I have disabled all services, apart from my own firewall 
script to populate iptables, and network.

This system allows me to ping www.grc.com from the command 
line. I can also start X and KDE, and Konqueror is able to 
reach remote sites on the net, so no problems in the 
networking dept.

>From hitting return in the GRUB menu to a login prompt, it 
takes 45 seconds to boot. The memory footprint, according to 
#free -m -s5 is:

        total        used   free   shared   buffers   cached
Mem:     489          67    422        0         3       24
-/+ buffers/cache     39    450
Swap: 1066             0   1066

Are there any other services that I need for a basic system 
please, such as logging?

I thought I'd try booting a very minimal system, then add 
services as needed, rather than working from the other 
perspective of disabling services I might not need.

Kind Regards

Keith Roberts

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