in a way this is just mandrake, lots of linuces install without a desktop,
because they seem to have been distributed with less of a
one-size-fits-all approach. to be fair 7.0 was also easy to pull the
desktop out and run a server only install. i haven't attempted since, but
it's a feature that a small, but still significant minority will probably
expect to be possible, without a week of after-install pursuit of
dependencies in thousands of trigger files for what just installed --
sounds a hell of a lot more like unbloating a solaris box after it was
installed with 'all' to me.
bottom line, if you want a minimalist server, linux is an option ,but
probably mandrake isn't the best option of the linuxes out there at
present, from what i've seen. But Mandrake remains a great desktop
bells-and-whistles distro.
Question: This list seems primarily focused for employees of
Mandrake-Cooker. I would prefer not to bog down this list with long
winded comment off topic here -- would you be able to recommend a mail
list more appropriate to a reply such as this?
-Dave Dennis
Seattle WA
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Jason Jeremias wrote:
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:09:21 -0800
> From: Jason Jeremias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [Cooker] A true Server install
>
> I'd really like to see a server only install. Something that doesn't
> install any X, KDE, GNOME, etc. Just a good ol console runing server
> that (take an example from openbsd) is secure by default.
>
> Really drives me nuts when I do a server install of Mandrake and it
> proceeds to install a bunch of stuff I would never put on my server.
> Then I spend the next hour looking at rpm -qa | more un installing all
> this stuff.
>
> Any chance this may happen in the future.
>
> -Jason
>
>
