Re: [gentoo-hardened] Tin Hat memory requirements?

[Jan Klod <janklodvan@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 20 August 2008 14:14:24 Natanael Copa wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 13:37 +0300, Jan Klod wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am interested in setting up distro in RAM for file server, but the
> > thing is: I only have 1GB of RAM (max in board). Since fileserver really
> > doesn't require much of software, I was consider asking this question:
> > can Tin Hat help here?
> > How booting is done?
> > How back-synchronization happens (from RAM to backup)? Only manually by
> > copying?
> >
> > Hope you give some advices,
>
> If you dont need xorg you might want to take a look at alpine linux,
> distro based on gentoo hardened with uclibc/busybox. It is designed to
> run firewalls and vpns from RAM but can also be used for ISCSI, vserver
> hosts, samba/nfs and others.
>
> during boot it installs all the needed packages to RAM. There is a local
> backup utility that helps to backup your /etc to USB memory together
> with the list of installed packages so get your configuration back.
>
> http://alpinelinux.org
>
> -nc

Thank you Natanael, but, before I start long reading about it, what could be 
memory requirements for alpine and is it a real hardened gentoo with portage 
accessible or, if not, how all the install / compiling is done there?

Jan