On Sat, January 14, 2012 3:33 am, Osamu Aoki wrote: > HI, > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:56:09PM +0530, Bijoy Lobo wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I am currently Debian Squeeze for a UTM ( >> Squid3+Snort+OpenVPN+iptables). I >> would like to strip down the OS for better performance of the UTM. It >> would >> be acting as a gateway to my network so if there is any software within >> the >> OS which i can uninstall for better performance would certainly help me. > > For such system, all desktop application should go. More for security > and space than performance. > > You can remove almost everything but base system as long as you keep > dependency of these programs and required kernel modules for your > hardware. Oh, keeping aptitude and vim will help your productivity. > > This is something you do not get quick short answer... try and learn > yourself using tools such as aptitude. > > Osamu
I still think the best option is to just install from netinst and only install what you need, as someone else suggested. It's what I do. ./tony -- http://tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/a31b5143ce2faf7fd7271fdf42e26883.squir...@tonybaldwin.org