Introduction

• For a modern amd64 PC.
  • such as Intel Skylake, Kaby lake (for desktop.)
  • Intel Apollo Lake SoC and Gemini Lake SoC (for low load servers.)
  • modern PC, such as SSD/NVMe installed.
• Small base system, but not so much reduced.
  • Basic CLI only, if you stop at the first three sections.
  • If you do need very minimum Linux, consider Gentoo and/or Alpine Linux.
• Using LVM for future extensibility.
  • LVM-over-LUKS pattern.
  • Recommends small LVM LV sizes since we can easily extend them.
• Settings mainly aim to manage the system easily.
  • It's almost a standard Debian GNU/Linux.
• Secure as much as possible without heavy configurations.
  • LUKS System encryption except /boot.
  • Separated filesystem with a bit restricted mount options.
  • It does not use "ro" mount options (2nd. edition will).
  • Optional securetty, PAM su restriction, LSM, etc (2nd. edition requires some).
• Can be applied on ordinal desktops and/or low load servers.
  • Your LOCAL low load servers; if you want some REMOTE servers, be careful on securetty and PAM settings.
  • GNOME (Japanese) desktop in small footprint.

Table of contents

If you want Debian base system only, use the first 3 sections.

Reading and setting though out these guide, you will have a Japanese GNOME desktop with relatively small size.