Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 28, 2004 02:09 AM
The main benefit as I see it is for those with more specialised requirements.
If you want a standard desktop use SuSe/Redhat/Xandros/whichever distribution.
But if you want to set up a mail-server/web-server etc that is available from the internet, then this could save a lot of time shutting down and removing a lot of un-necessary services.
When I have set-up an internet mail-server using Redhat, a lot of the time taken is spent removing the services that are not relevant to that particular machine, but that are included by default.
I will certainly be keeping an eye on this to see how it develops
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Re:What are the benefits?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 28, 2004 02:09 AMIf you want a standard desktop use SuSe/Redhat/Xandros/whichever distribution.
But if you want to set up a mail-server/web-server etc that is available from the internet, then this could save a lot of time shutting down and removing a lot of un-necessary services.
When I have set-up an internet mail-server using Redhat, a lot of the time taken is spent removing the services that are not relevant to that particular machine, but that are included by default.
I will certainly be keeping an eye on this to see how it develops
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