[BUGS] Really small distro

[Joshua Bromfield]

Hey Guys, thanks for the quick responses.

Apologies for not outlining my goals in the original post. I have just
started as a Junior Unix Administrator & am running Windows XP on my new
laptop.

My reason for running a VM is because I dont have a sandbox system to write
scripts etc in, but I also want to run a small wiki (Dokuwiki) for my notes
& stuff for my time here.

Until the day when I can install FBSD on my laptop, this is as close as I
will get I suppose.

Cheers guys,

Josh.

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Andrew Reilly <areilly at bigpond.net.au>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:15:39PM +1100, Joshua Bromfield wrote:
> > I am looking to run a small web server in a VM on my desktop here at
> work.
>
> As a rough guess, you want to do this because your desktop is
> Windows, and you don't trust the windows-native web servers,
> or they don't do what you want in some way?  As Edwin says,
> if you're already running FreeBSD, then jails are a very good
> simulation.  Personally, an ordinary Unix process is a good
> enough model for a virtual machine for my purposes: that's what
> operating systems are for!
>
> > I
> > dont want anything like GUI or any other novelties for that matter, it
> just
> > has to be terminal & capable of running apache or lighttpd.
> >
> > Are you guys aware of any small distributions I can install without all
> the
> > garbage that goes with it?
> >
> > In my searches on Google I have found Damn Small Linux (DSL), it looks
> like
> > its ok, but I figured I'd ask you first.
>
> If you really want a small OS in a VM, then you can get
> arbitrarily close with FreeBSD, particularly if you build
> something out of nanoBSD (PJK's scripts for building
> stripped-down versions of FreeBSD for embedded servers of
> various sorts: it's in ports/devel, from memory.)
>
> On the other hand, if you're game, and don't insist on lighttpd
> (but apache runs, and there are probably other options)
> you'll have a tough time finding something unix-like that can do
> IP networking that is smaller than Minix-3.  Good fun to play
> with.  Odd, though.  Networking interfaces, in particular, are
> very different, since they're not based on Berkely sockets.
>
> Another option that you might want to consider, if you're set on
> a "VM", there are a whole bunch of web servers in Java, which
> run in that language's VM (see:
> http://java-source.net/open-source/web-servers)
>
> There are many ways to skin the web server cat.  You it might
> want to explain some more details that affect your particuar
> problem space.
>
> Chees,
>
> Andrew
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