Yo!
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> 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
Of course we have to cater for server install as well, why do you think we
have apache and inn and samba etc in the distro .. :-)
> 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.
>
Well, IMHO you can run a Mandrake as server, absolutely no problem. We aim
to make it more user-friendly but that doesn't mean that we dump away the
server image.
Even if you do a default server install you ould still have to do some massive
configuration to make it secure, now think, we have lots of kinds of srever we
don't really know what server you want to run, perhaps ypu just want apache,
in which case you would probably remove telnet whatever etc ...
> Question: This list seems primarily focused for employees of
> Mandrake-Cooker. I would prefer not to bog down this list with long
Yes there are mdksoft employees here but a lot of folks here are just
volunteers who make bugz report to us ..(for which we are very grateful! :-)
--
Geoff
