Hello,
Like many others I am in the process of migration from CentOS 7 to Debian 12. I used Ubuntu for quite a while but dropped it after the unity desktop. That is my only experience with Debian up to this point.
One thing that I didn't like about CentOS was the unbelievable amount of software that was installed by default. Perhaps this just means that I didn't know how to use the installer but there were literally dozens of daemons that were installed with firewall settings allowing external connections. To me, this is insane to have programs that you are never going to use just sitting there configured to accept remote connections. I have a good hardware firewall so I didn't worry overly about it.
I would like to do better this time and am interested if there is a writeup somewhere on how to start with a minimal installation that I can add to as I go. I have always preferred the "install on first use" model but that doesn't seem to be available. I am sure it takes a bit to set up such a thing and there are other tools available.
At any rate, I would rather not have hundreds of processes running at boot. For now, this will be a workstation so I don't need any daemons for email servers, file sharing, web servers, remote access, etc.
I am guessing that I am not the first person to ask this so I am hoping that someone can point me to some resources. I did a search but only came up with what looks like a more minimal distribution. I don't know what I will end up needing to add so I would rather start with the standard distribution.
Advice, as always, is greatly appreciated. Please let me know if I have omitted any information. I can post a list of the applications I know that I will need at first if that would be helpful or of interest.
Thanks,
LMHmedchem
Like many others I am in the process of migration from CentOS 7 to Debian 12. I used Ubuntu for quite a while but dropped it after the unity desktop. That is my only experience with Debian up to this point.
One thing that I didn't like about CentOS was the unbelievable amount of software that was installed by default. Perhaps this just means that I didn't know how to use the installer but there were literally dozens of daemons that were installed with firewall settings allowing external connections. To me, this is insane to have programs that you are never going to use just sitting there configured to accept remote connections. I have a good hardware firewall so I didn't worry overly about it.
I would like to do better this time and am interested if there is a writeup somewhere on how to start with a minimal installation that I can add to as I go. I have always preferred the "install on first use" model but that doesn't seem to be available. I am sure it takes a bit to set up such a thing and there are other tools available.
At any rate, I would rather not have hundreds of processes running at boot. For now, this will be a workstation so I don't need any daemons for email servers, file sharing, web servers, remote access, etc.
I am guessing that I am not the first person to ask this so I am hoping that someone can point me to some resources. I did a search but only came up with what looks like a more minimal distribution. I don't know what I will end up needing to add so I would rather start with the standard distribution.
Advice, as always, is greatly appreciated. Please let me know if I have omitted any information. I can post a list of the applications I know that I will need at first if that would be helpful or of interest.
Thanks,
LMHmedchem
Statistics: Posted by LMHmedchem — 2024-07-05 18:56 — Replies 3 — Views 71
