On Sat May 22 2004 19:19, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: <snip> > at least it didn't install many unecessary packages (NFS and portmap were > the primary offenders), and installed exactly 0 servers, extra tools, > etc... so, despite the size, the minimal install is nice and minimal ... > not even xinetd =)
That's really encouraging, and also means I'll consider using the distro just based on that. :-) > minimal also means "no X", but it STILL defaults to runlevel 5 and tries to > run an X display manager (graphical login) which, of course, fails. oops! > quick edit to /etc/inittab fixed that. still, kind of sloppy. Question on that -- in my Slackware /etc/inittab, runlevel 5 unused but configured the same as 3, which is multiuser console. Runlevel 4 is GUI. Is this odd behaviour? Just wondering if there was a standard or something. > they also still install sendmail by default instead of postfix. *sigh* and > installing postfix doesn't uninstall sendmail, even when doing it through > yum. *double sigh* More OT, but this is one of the few big gripes I have about Slackware as well. Thank goodness for removepkg and contrib binary packages. ;-) <snip> > speaking of yum... it's probably the best thing in Fedora over older Red > Hat releases. for those not familiar with it, yum is Fedora's answer to > apt-get, urpmi, etc... it's a network-aware package installer that takes > care of finding packages, installing them (including dependency resolution) > and managing them ... finally, even Red Hat doesn't suffer from RPM > dependency-installation hell and can take advantage of networked, > media-less install sources. this also means that when you install a > package, you always get the newest available version and updating your > system (think: security patches) is a single command. this is all ho-hum, > yawn-yawn for those using other Linux OSes, but for Red Hatters it's a > "FINALLY!" Yay!! The reason I left RPM-based distros has (finally) been solved. Hooway! I was recently debating using Fedora vs. Debian for a project and I had passed up FC1 for the moment. Now I'll need another testing box. ;-) Thanks for the review, Aaron. Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
