Prana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I will be really glad if most of the unnecessary services are turned off
> for default install, including but not limited to, inetd daemon. It
> minimizes or prevents the chance any attacks such as Denial of service
> and buffer overflow. Let's take a look at the last big security problem:
> rpc.statd and wu-ftpd, 2 stuff that was turned on by default install.
> Redhat finally decides to turn off services by default in 7.0 and let
> the user selects it. I think this has some advantages:
> - It speeds up the boot process
> - Reduce some memory consumption
> - Prevents unexpected crack
and what about for the new users when he doing a {gk}ftp host where he
expect to work like for all others unixes/linux-distro.
> Other reasons why I am requesting this to be turned off is that I find a
> lot of newcomers from Windows don't even know what a daemon is, and even
> when DrakConf has made it super easy, some of them don't really get it.
> I find a lot of people don't even update the packages that have security
> problem because they don't even want to read the book too much (this is
> what most average users are).
Doen't know what a daemon but know they can connect on his machines..
> Mandrake is generally stable, except that there are some packages that
> might still be in Beta and can cause lock up (only in X-Windows - you
> can easily Ctrl-Alt-Backspace -- but newcomers from Windows might not
> know about this), thus reducing the stability. I really hope that
> Mandrake 7.2 is really stable so that newcomers from Windows won't
> switch back. Linux has a good reputation of stability, and I really hope
> that it will last for Mandrake and all other distros too :-)
You don't describe any bugs here, if you have some please go use :
Bugzilla <URL:https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/>
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