On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 01:43:34PM -0700, Deke Clinger wrote: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Christian Seberino wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 08:30, Michael J McCafferty wrote: > > > 2 hours ?!?!?!?!?!? What are you installing ? Windows XP on a PII ? Are > > > you > > > installing "Everything" from the Fedora distro ? > > > > Yes. I thought 'Everything' was best as I'm always afraid of forgetting > > something. It is hard to know what people will need. > > Installing 'everything' wastes time (as you see) and isn't a great practice > due to potential security problems with running services (BIND, FTP?). You > might try installing a reasonable default image and then letting people use > 'yum' or whatever to install whatever else they need. > > -Deke
Not to be contentious, here is another take. Installing everything (when I have the room to spare) usually saves me time later when I discover I need something to make something else work. Of course, I use ntsys on every new installation to shut down unneeded services, and my stuff is all behind a firewall. I think this is one where Deke is right and Lan is right. Depends on what you're doing. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
