AwPhuch, I think you can strip out all of the X windows stuff from dsl, but when I tried stripping out all of the "crap" I was left with 34 Megs, not 20-25. I might have missed stuff, but I tried to get rid of anything X based. I used dpkg --remove packagename to get rid of 26 packages. I know that some things didn't get removed because there were residual files all over the place that I stripped out by hand.
My second thought is that it's much easier to make a remaster than to make dsl files for all of your add-ins. You want Apache, mysql, & PHP from a live CD? No problem (well some tricky bits like you need to apt-get uucp even though it doesn't say you do). You want to make them into dsl files and load them on demand? Now that's hard. If you want a liveCD web server, it might be easiest to include all of the popular things that people ask for all the time (like Apache, mysql, and PHP) and let the core size be what it is. My guess is around 100 Megs, no X windows.
My third thought is security. People don't even have firewalls on the windows boxes. There are so many zombie machines out there were in the night of the living dead. And web sites get hacked all the time. Even if they can't destroy your data and system, they could still usurp it and run whatever they wanted. Send spam, attract attention, who knows what. There is a lot of danger in an "out of the box easy to startup web server." |
wireless support is questionable, but i think i will leave it in. i will try and set up so it automatically looks on your hd and finds a specific folder, symlinks it with the htdocs of whatever web server is used (probably monkey), so just pop the cd in and you are serving your site in a couple of minutes 