Re: new sysinstall

[Ben Laurie <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :Something small like thttpd would work as a plain server.  Or would Apache 
> :module support be useful in  the future?
> :
> :In any case, this sounds darn good to my uneducated ear.
> 
>     Apache is fairly small, a complete install of Apache2 is less then 4MB I
>     think.  We should probably just use Apache2.

Much less than 4 MB, I'd've thought.

>     PHP5 looks very cool but it does depend on Python and a number of other
>     things, so it takes a lot of CD space.  Maybe we could start with PHP4,
>     which is also only around 4MB installed.  PHP5 could be an upgrade path
>     for us down the line.

I'd vote for a more "proper" language myself :-)

Cheers,

Ben.

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