On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> in a way this is just mandrake, lots of linuces install without a desktop,
> because they seem to have been distributed with less of a
> one-size-fits-all approach. to be fair 7.0 was also easy to pull the
> desktop out and run a server only install. i haven't attempted since, but
> it's a feature that a small, but still significant minority will probably
> expect to be possible, without a week of after-install pursuit of
> dependencies in thousands of trigger files for what just installed --
> sounds a hell of a lot more like unbloating a solaris box after it was
> installed with 'all' to me.
>
> bottom line, if you want a minimalist server, linux is an option ,but
> probably mandrake isn't the best option of the linuxes out there at
> present, from what i've seen. But Mandrake remains a great desktop
> bells-and-whistles distro.
>
Dave,
This is a fair list for answers such as this. Don't worry about it.
-Chris
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> Question: This list seems primarily focused for employees of
> Mandrake-Cooker. I would prefer not to bog down this list with long
> winded comment off topic here -- would you be able to recommend a mail
> list more appropriate to a reply such as this?
>
>
> -Dave Dennis
> Seattle WA
>
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Jason Jeremias wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:09:21 -0800
> > From: Jason Jeremias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [Cooker] A true Server install
> >
> > I'd really like to see a server only install. Something that doesn't
> > install any X, KDE, GNOME, etc. Just a good ol console runing server
> > that (take an example from openbsd) is secure by default.
> >
> > Really drives me nuts when I do a server install of Mandrake and it
> > proceeds to install a bunch of stuff I would never put on my server.
> > Then I spend the next hour looking at rpm -qa | more un installing all
> > this stuff.
> >
> > Any chance this may happen in the future.
> >
> > -Jason
