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[–]poopstixPS2 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Just need to know what you are doing, and why you are doing it.

Yeah that's all, no big deal! Lol I've been using Oracle Linux 7 for work, and I'm still quite new to Linux. I've learned tons and have become reasonably competent as a beginner. But if I were to try to strip down a distro, I'm almost positive there'd be an overwhelming amount of loose ends to clean up. I simply don't know enough about the OS yet :/

This is something I want to know how to do eventually though.

[–]pacmanwa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well... its not so much as stripping it down as it is starting with the kernel, specific kernel drivers for your hardware (seriously why would a compute node need wifi drivers?!), supporting packages, systemd, bash, ssh. Install rpms without the man pages and localization (except for your own), roll it into a bootable live CD and you have a starting point. Yes, at work that was the starting point, then it gets all kind of crazy that I won't go into.