[Linux4christians] Long week.

[Pastor David]

> RHEL bloated?

I am afraid that my RHEL familiarity goes back a number of
years.  I gather that they have cleaned things up?

> But, to be honest, RHEL is not designed to do what Puppy is.  The
> kernel and the devices and features it is compiled to support
> determine the "bloat" level, not the distro.  If I recompiled RHEL's
> kernel (as I very well can) to only support the hardware I need to
> run it on, it might be just as small as Puppy's.

OK.  That makes sense - though other than Linux sys admins
and a small cadre of geeks, recompiling any distro is an
unusual exercise.  To most a generic distribution not
optimized for size and efficiency looks like MS-bloat.

I misread the question as addressing enterprise and/or
home user apps and was imprecise in not labeling my post
as focused on the "home user" side.  For home users, and
many small businesses and non-profits and educational
environments, Puppy is more than adequate.

> Besides that, Puppy will never cut it in an Eterprise Server
> environment, its not meant to.  The Monitoring, the storage, the
> number of users, all combine to put a heavy load on a real server,
> and puppy just isn't compiled with the support for those things.

Understood.  I was a sys admin in the 80's ... lost track of
lots since then ...   :-)

Thanks for the update!


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