Re: Fedora as Appliance

[Lai Zit Seng <lzs@xxxxxxxxx>]

Imho, your customized appliance distribution would probably be a lot 
more lightweight and compact if you build from something very basic, 
rather than start from Fedora and strip things out from there. Unless 
the "compactness" is not a requirement for your appliance :) But of 
course it'll probably be much easier to strip things out of Fedora :)

Regards,

.lzs
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Ryan D'Baisse wrote:
> My goal: To create a custom distribution of Linux (hopefully using 
> Fedora) to act strictly as a SMTP, POP, and web server.  I want to 
> essentially try building a Fedora-based internet appliance for my mail 
> server.
>  
> I want to build a Java/JSP-based email server... Java for the middle 
> "worker" processes and JSP for configuration.  I have already build the 
> majority of Java utilities, that will function behind the scenes, and am 
> now working on the JSP-based web application to configure the various 
> Java components.  I would hope to reuse existing reliable packages for 
> the SMTP & POP3 pieces (for now).
>  
> I am looking for recommendations on the following...
>  
>     1. Recommendations for the SMTP & POP3 daemons / packages;
>     2. Recommendations on the minimum packages needed for this;
>     3. Recommendations on good "how to" articles for building custom 
> distributions; and,
>     4. Anything else that may be helpful.
>  
> As an FYI, I am building the Java/JSP pieces on Windows and testing on a 
> FC4 virtual machine using VMWare.  I have an older machine that ran FC2 
> & FC3 perfectly.  Everything that is non-essential has been stripped out 
> of the box (floppy, firewire, USB, sound card, etc.).  Once I am done 
> with this, I will be installing on that older box.
>  
> Thanx,
> Ryan
>  
>