[RULE] Bare-bones Server HOWTO Update

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

Hey, everyone:

While the majority of the content is now less relevant to both the
"fedora-minimal" group and the RULE Project, I have placed an updated
version of my package removal schemes in the "Bare-bones Server HOWTO"
on Simpaticus.com. This will be its permanent home, and I will make NO
FURTHER EFFORTS to remove more packages from Fedora Core 3, so I would
greatly/hugely/humbly appreciate it if some of you could go through and
test my package removal recommendations to make sure they all work for
everyone and have no unforeseen glitches.

The "fedora-minimal" effort will now switch gears from trying to remove
packages in FC3 to modifying the comps.xml file which dictates package
sets during installation. The goal is to get most of the packages we
removed in FC3 out of the minimal install for FC4, so that next time we
will have to do a lot less work. I would love to see the FC4 default
minimal install shrink from 570MB at least down to 420MB, such that the
install and a 64MB swap partition could fit into a 500MB disk.

As an unrelated aside, I have written a new navigation bar for
Simpaticus.com and it happens to be my first one, so I would appreciate
it if anyone who cares to review the "Bare-bones Server HOWTO" and check
out the package removal recommendations would be so kind as to wander
around the site for a minute or so (time enough to see every page on the
site, really) and comment on the navbar's functionality and ease-of-use.

Cheers,

-- 
Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>


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