Ben Scott wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got to upgrade my home desktop distro (Fedora 8 being not > updated anymore) so I thought I'd give Ubuntu 8.10 a try. After > trying the GNOME GUI overload thing for a few days, I once again > decided I Don't Like That, and went back to fvwm. I then proceed to > disable the plague of daemons which had infected my system. > > I observe an interesting behavior: If "hald" is not running, then I > get no keyboard in X. > > Even the zap sequence (CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE) doesn't work. I could > switch virtual consoles, though, so it was easy enough to restart the > hald (and dbus-daemon, which it depends on). > > So, my questions are: > > A1. What the frak has gone wrong with Linux where even the frelling > *KEYBOARD* needs two daemons running? > > A2. Is is practical to want to run Ubuntu without all these dameons, > or am I fighting the design assumptions of the system here? > > A3. If the answer to A2 is "It is practical", anyone want to tell me > how, or point me at a writeup, etc.? > > A4. If the answer to A2 is "It is NOT practical", anyone have some > advice on a distro that doesn't pervert everything good about Unix? > > -- Ben > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > >
Just a general comment - it seems that any modern distro will have quite a few daemons running. For a while I've taken old systems and installed Linux on them to be donated to needy families. What I have found is that it's a bit of work to get Linux running on a system with less than 256 MB of RAM. But systems that are 5+ years old often only have 128 MB and sometimes less. When you get to these hardware limited systems Damned Small Linux/Puppy Linux etc.. start to become attractive. Naturally if you install on a more current system they seem to fly. -Alex P.S. I also ran across a statement in "Linux® Bible 2007 Edition" that the hald daemon was enabled by default in Fedora. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
