On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 07:02:21PM -0500, Prana wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> Did you guys read the review in ActiveWin.com about Linux Mandrake 7.2?
>
> Since last year I've been saying "Turn off services by default" for more
> than 10 times. Now I read a review in ActiveWin.com about LM 7.2 being a
> resource hog, and it's true because they're running a whole bunch of
> services turned on by default - I guess they install the "Customized ->
> Development" version. For God's sake, what for?
>
The team's conclusion was that if you have something installed then
you must want to use it and so we want it to be run by default.
Of course we had many arguments over that issue but that's the conclusion
that we finally came to. And anyway the default policy now is that
we don't install any servers for the desktop.
>
> And also, they say that LM 7.2 is bloated (read ActiveWin.com). Of
> course it is, since it includes stuff like GIMP, XMMS, etc. However,
> I've personally never used stuff useless stuff like xmame and xmess
> which takes a lot of hard-drive space and they're in the default
> selection of install. I never run tin, xrn, or other old and ugly news
> readers.
>
I don't know but I don't think so, I have a 7.2 server running and I did
a very fine install even if I say so myself. The point is, if you install
the default install then of course things like this are going to be installed
and I don't think that's wrong. If you are going to be running a server then
run a customized install instead of accepting the defaults.
> I'm not trying to flame here. I personally like Mandrake and I dedicate
> my software for Mandrake, and so far I've contributed 2 (gnome-telnet -
> 7.2 ext CD #2 and Mandrake Update Robot - contrib 8.0). I really hope
> Mandrake will now turn off the services by default like Redhat 7.0. Many
> people don't like services turned on by default, it's useless, trust me.
> If they want to know about how to turn it on, give a simple message box
> after the install to run drakxservices.
>
In higher security levels things are silently turned off by default. I believe
that security level is 4 ...
This was again mentioned not so long ago.
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