-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 22, 2004 09:17, Curtis Sloan wrote: > > 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. :-)
yes, it's a great step forward. note, however, that Mandrake and SUSE beat them to this goal a few revs ago. Debian even longer. this is more catch up than anything. > > 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. ;-) some OSes are smart enough to only have one SMTP package at a time. =) > Yay!! The reason I left RPM-based distros has (finally) been solved. again, this is a catch play for Red Hat. the other RPM distros solved it some time ago =) > 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. ;-) cool... let us know how it goes =) - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 while (!horse()); cart(); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAsEEp1rcusafx20MRAiRoAJ9T5ZNN3pqNHQmqhZi9icYQky4mHwCgkGtO QCehVIHM+MYr0HlpQTVh6uY= =Y/OK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
