Making CentOS a tad lighter

CentOS is a fantastic Linux distribution because it’s rock solid: you can pretty much guarantee it’ll run on any box without much hacking and once it’s setup you can depend on it. It’s these qualities that make it such a great OS to run on servers, where you’re looking for something reliable that doesn’t break with every minor update. Its biggest pitfalls are its heavy memory footprint and excessive boot times, both of which make it unsuitable for virtualised servers. This blog post gives you some tips to cut down on both Read more