A chuckle about FC3

[Net Llama!]

On 12/10/2004 06:55 PM, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> 
>> I found a few crappy things about FC3 for desktop use, but nothing
>> really unstable even using the much maligned GNOME.
> 
> 
> I've always found Linux itself to be utterly stable. FC3 included. The 
> instability has always been in the gui stuff (Gnome and KDE primarily).
> 
>> If the Fedora
>> folks would just get off the Mandrake bandwagon and not start every
>> daemon known to mandkind ....
> 
> 
> Yes. It seems like this was the way distros were done 5+ years ago and 
> RH has just never changed. And dumb things like starting the Japanese 
> font stuff on a box installed as US English only. Or starting ISDN 
> services on a box used in North America (where ISDN is relatively rare - 
> unlike Europe).

Yea, i have to agree that is one one of the few things that has always 
annoyed me about Redhat/Fedora.  They start up everything on the box all 
the damn time.  No, i really, really, really really don't want rpc crap 
running on my internet facing web server.  *sigh*

> Seems like the newer distros have taken a critical look at this and are 
> doing a better job. Ubuntu's approach of starting essentially no 
> services and claiming that you therefore don't even need a firewall 
> (since there's nothing for crackers to aim at) is particularly interesting.

That i can't understand at all, but whatever.


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