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Doesn't the minimal installation satisfy that?
Am I missing something out? (I've never check what's inside the minimal install.)
Also, the title is... weird.
There are still things that run that don't need to. I want to get the most minimal install there is. that is still web ready.
check http://centminmod.com/
That doesn't strip it down.
rm /usr/bin/*
So... you want the minimal template?
problem with minimal is it still has stuff in it that isn't needed for a webserver. I want to litterally have only the bare metal os with ssh and wget and nano installed that is it.
The title is misleading
You might get a better reply at centos forums, just sayin.
rpm -qa
remove what you don't want, done.
Yes but need to know which packages can be removed.
Try it and figure it out, trial and error is a great learning process, and since most here are in love with Debian, you'll get little help in the community with CentOS
Or what packages you need
(SSH, rsync, cron = basically look at a Debian minimal template and apply that to this CentOS template you are making)
I spent about 15 minutes and came up with the following list:
Might be possible to cut a few more out.
you want to delete yum?
That is crazy talk!
More crazy There are many in your list @Damian that will leave the system inoperable, which might be your goal, but I kind of doubt it.
Eh, you can use console if you have the use of the console in your control panel.
But otherwise you're screwed.
Yeah those were not going anywhere.
Er I guess I should have stated originally. This list is what remains after paring down the 'unnecessary' packages.
I am really want to get the lowest possible space and memory usage out of centos for a web server.
Why? Why do a mere few megabytes hurt so much? I can't tell if you're being serious.
I just don't want anything that is not needed in a minimum install.
I double dog dare you to remove everything in that list and see if the system allows console access still
I don't think you will find a recipe for that anywhere. You'll need to pare and setup yourself.
Running minimally really isn't the CentOS mission, because it's not the RHEL mission.
I'm not sure why you'd obsess over a few tens of megabytes of disk.
For megabytes of memory, I understand, but you can turn stuff off and then it doesn't really matter if it's installed.
Debian is more often used for lean-and-mean stripped-down setups.
@raindog308 but why can't we have a minimalist version of centos?
I posted a minimalist version of centos. Remove any packages that are NOT in the list that I posted.
You can - it's just that you have to do it yourself. There's evidently little interest from the general Linux-using populace for such a thing or you'd probably have found it already.
@Damian thank you. I am currently removing unneeded stuff.
I get support tickets from Southeast Asian clients all the time who say they run CentOS 5.5 or 5.8 because of "less memory consumption" but they have more than enough RAM free.
One word Slackware. On a side note I did not know Centos took its clothing off. :P