On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Brian Wood wrote: > It doesn't seem unreasonable to think a distro would target service > providers. Here's the problem with this - every business is different. Back in the Olden Days when we still had many varieties of UNIX all over the place, one of the selling points for SunOS/Solaris/HPUX/AIX/Tru64 and all the other 'real' UNIX-variants over Linux was that they were business oriented. And I can tell you from experience that each and every one of those needed to be customised further by just about every business that used them. You just cannot avoid that. Now you could go the OpenBSD route and just start with EVERYTHING disabled, and then you have to go in and enable everything you want. Whether that is in any way easier to do than shutting down stuff you don't need is ebatable (though the security implications are obvious). this is why big organisations have jumpstart/kickstart servers that install customised versions of the OS. And even then, most places will have their custom hardening scripts. Again, NO DISTRIBUTION will be perfect for you. If you're comfortable with Fedora you should keep using it, and create a hardening script that you can run and will automatically stop/uninstall stuff you don't want. Then just run that after install. It's a lot simpler than moving to a different distro. --