A chuckle about FC3

[David Bandel]

On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 08:36:34 -0800, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 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*

I thought all distros stopped doing this stupidity years ago. :-(

> 
> > 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.

Basically, if no ports are open, it's kinda tough to connect to
something to subvert.  Now you have to trick the user into doing
something that runs a program/service that opens a port.

There are two ways to get into a system:  keyboard, open port.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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