too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd

[Rahul Sundaram]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Lun 19 mars 2007 10:51, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
> 
>> Extra - cpuspeed. mdmonitor, netfs, ntpd, portmap. Can't see a reason to
>> enable these by default.
> 
> cpuspeed, mdmonitor and ntpd are no more extra than NetworkManager

Yes, They are. For a desktop. A Live CD is targeted at the desktop. 
Nothing else.

> Daemon number is a red herring. A gigantic do-it-all daemon is worse than
> a set  of small well-defined services. cpuspeed, mdmonitor and ntpd are
> definitively not the ones who should be axed first - they're small, proven
> and without side-effects (unlike others)

Unless there is any do-it-all daemon enabled by default this is 
irrelevant. There are side effects for all daemons - slower performance, 
potential higher security risks etc. The less the better.

Rahul