Hello hyde!

19 Oct 19, hyde david wrote to Kai Richter:

 hd> I think of the servers I have installed in the past that come with
 hd> lots of utils and pkgs I have no need for. If I build my own server
 hd> to complete only the tasks that I need. Speed and security could be
 hd> greatly improved.

I don't think so, because installed tools you don't need are placed on the
storage but not active in memory or cpu. It may save some time during fscks,
but greatly?

My experience is that i may need those tools sometimes in the future. If
removed i've to find out why it's not working, reinstall the missing, maybe
configure it, in short it needs my time. It's easier to rely on the maintainers
for the basic set of tools. For debain servers you could remove the desktop
environments during installation and get a basic shell system of 300-400MB
where you can install your server on top.

From scratch is a far longer journey but you'll learn many insides of the
system.

Regards

Kai

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