Smallest non-GUI distro for sshd and openvpn
Looking for the distro that:
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Tiny Core/Micro Core seems to offer ssh as well as openvpn in its list of extensions. [X] Doc CPU |
I don't know lots of distros, so I can't say which is the best, but I can recommend a general approach.
Ubuntu, and several other distros I think, have a "minimal install" version. It's like 10MB. (use whichever distro's package management system you like best.) Install this, and then add the necessary packages ssh and openvpn. apt will pull in just the dependencies you need - possibly quite a lot, but nothing unnecessary. This checks all your requirements, unless your "old PCs" have very limited RAM - I wouldn't count on this running in 64MB of RAM without very careful tweaking of startup services etc. But you could try it out in a virtual machine first. If you then need to install it on multiple servers you could use something like remastersys. |
I would go with Debian (very good for low ram) or Slackware/Salix, Salix having dependency resolution.
Smallest install would probably be Slackware/Salix, and easiest to maintain I think. EDIT: you might want to look at TTYLinux http://www.minimalinux.org/ttylinux/ that's really small |
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I have a non-gui Slackware system that takes up only about 300MB of space, and a fluxbox install that is about 700MB
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[X] Doc CPU |
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Do you know where its package manager listings might be? |
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To the original question: Try it with the base (non-GUI) flavor of Slitaz, it is about 8MB in size and packages for SSH and OpenVPN are available. You can use the tools delivered with the full version of Slitaz ((about 30MB, with GUI) to make your own flavor, so that you have a minimal distro with the packages you want, which can easily be booted from harddisk, CD, USB and network (PXE boot). |
@lothario - what kind of RAM and disk space needs are you hoping for?
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Currently we have 4 really old PCs.
Tried to install the minimal base Ubuntu 10.04 a few days ago on:
So I am looking for something that will run with 32 MB system and take less disk space. These older IDE hard disks are harder to find OR they are expensive. |
Ubuntu requires 128mb bare minimum for the basic server install (and it definitely won't work on a 586 or Pentium 1):
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...9_Installation Personally I recommend upgrading your hardware. You can probably find better hardware in the trash :) or Craigslist, Freecycle, Goodwill, local companies upgrading their hardware, etc. |
This sounds like an job for LFS, (Linux from Scratch) You can cut it down to 60mb maybe even 50mb after fine tuning.
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[X] Doc CPU |
QNX would run on those all day long but it still isn't really open.
The choice of slitaz may be the best. Might consider bds based too. Freebsd should be able to be run on all of those. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/...-hardware.html |
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