Re: Probably been asked a hundred times before.

david@eclipsecat.com (David Siebert) writes:
> Well I am kind of stuck using OpenSuse. Not a bad distro and is the one
> we use in our office for production work.
> I like CentOS myself for database work and tend to use that for test
> systems here since I manage them myself.
> I was more wondering if someone had made a Postgres centric distro yet.
> Sort of FreeNAS, OpenFiler, or what ever the Asterisk distro is called
> these days.
> Seems like you could build a nice little distro that was database
> centric. Maybe use FreeBSD, Solaris, or Centos as the base.
> Sort of a plug and play solution.

A "pretty minimalist" approach would be...

- Install Debian base (~20MB of "install")

- Figure out packages needed for PostgreSQL
  PKGS="postgresql-client-8.3 postgresql-8.3"

- Libraries, and such
  PKGS="${PKGS} libpq5 libdbd-pg-perl"

- Some tools
  PKGS="${PKGS} pgadmin3 pgadmin3-data"

- Some useful 3rd party bits
  PKGS="${PKGS} cfengine2 ntp ssh vim"

Then install that...

$ apt-get install ${PKGS}

That's going to draw in some dependancies, but is still quite, quite
minimal, moreso than anything that wasn't *expressly* customized for
the purpose.  That will, for instance, be *way* smaller than Centos.

You could do much the same using ports/openpkg on FreeBSD.
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