[Info-vax] VMS First-Boot on x86 Contest

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <34bgle-m3a2.ln1 at news2.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> > Hopefully VSI will change things so that a new VMS installation
> > installs EVERYTHING.  Disks are cheap.  Really cheap.  If necessary,
> > some functionality could be restricted via licensing.
> 
> No, we don't want EVERYTHING, we only want the components needed for
> this instance's requirements.  The attack surface area should be
> kept to the minimum.

We are talking 20 cents per GB or whatever.  Is the effort to reduce the 
footprint really worth it?