This is unrelated to any security patches / exploits, hence off-topic. I'm posting here mostly because it seems like the right crowd for this sort of problem. If this offends you, let me know and I'll find a different venue in the future.
OK. We're a large network running lots (~100) thin clients, and expecting to run more of them in the future. Currently, these are NeoWare Eon's (mobile x86 cpu) running Linux (an old scaled-down RedHat), with an NFS-mounted root fs. They run almost nothing locally: currently an X server, sshd, and possibly some music forwarding daemon in the future, so users can listen to tunes on their thin clients using software on the server (we don't give users access to the local software). Now, we're looking to upgrade the Linux on these thin clients. I like Debian, so that's one obvious choice. However, a standard Debian install (e.g. what I run on my machine) gives us much more than we need. This isn't fatal, since the filesystem is NFS-mounted, but it's not clean, either. Is there a Debian-derived minimal distribution? Or should we just install the base Debian system, add X via tasksel, and add/remove remaining items with dselect or apt-get? There is obviously more than one solution here, so I'm looking for recommendations. We care about security; we don't want to run any services we don't need, etc. Reliability is key, so your uncle's friend's brother's alpha software might not be for us. Any other comments (relevant to Debian on thin clients / X terminals) welcome. -chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
