Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 7.2 + 8.0 bloated and resource hog!

[Andrej Borsenkow]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Geoffrey Lee wrote:

> 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.
>

Under "now" you mean upcoming 8.0? It is good. I always asked myself, what
have NIS and NFS to do on a lone home PC without LAN card ...

-andrej