Webfish linux is a Linux distribution aimed at servers, routers and customised workstations for experienced Linux users.
Webfish attempts ot get away from the “bloat” factor of many common distributions. Webfish does not include large amounts of binary packages, or a package manager. It is based on a small base set that provides kernel , GCC, Perl, Sed, Awk, Bash, ethernet tools etc. Basically, all that is required to run a base system and compile software but not any software itself. Not even a “telnet” command in sight. System software and services are installed from source using standard methods.
Webfish was oringinally based on the base package list from the linuxfromscratch.org project. The main reason for this is that there is no point in re-inventing the wheel and LFS have produced a nice colated list of base pacakges. Webfish, however, has evolved and is not just another LFS system. Package configurations have been modifed. Some things have been added. Webfish tries to be usable and to provide an altenative to having to compile the base system from scratch every single time whilst still maintaining the flexibility, optimisations and bloat-free nature of a stripped-down source distribution.
Users can, if they so wish, take Webfish a stage further and use my build profile to compile a webfish system completely from source. This should be fairly hassle free although you should probably experiment with the pre-compiled base’s first. Webfish linux is a Linux distribution aimed at servers, routers and customised workstations for experienced Linux users.
Webfish attempts ot get away from the “bloat” factor of many common distributions. Webfish does not include large amounts of binary packages, or a package manager. It is based on a small base set that provides kernel , GCC, Perl, Sed, Awk, Bash, ethernet tools etc. Basically, all that is required to run a base system and compile software but not any software itself. Not even a “telnet” command in sight. System software and services are installed from source using standard methods.
Webfish was oringinally based on the base package list from the linuxfromscratch.org project. The main reason for this is that there is no point in re-inventing the wheel and LFS have produced a nice colated list of base pacakges. Webfish, however, has evolved and is not just another LFS system. Package configurations have been modifed. Some things have been added. Webfish tries to be usable and to provide an altenative to having to compile the base system from scratch every single time whilst still maintaining the flexibility, optimisations and bloat-free nature of a stripped-down source distribution.
Users can, if they so wish, take Webfish a stage further and use my build profile to compile a webfish system completely from source. This should be fairly hassle free although you should probably experiment with the pre-compiled base’s first.
Webfish Linux Official website
Download link to the distribution ISO
