too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd

[Richard Hughes]

On 19/03/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
>
> Le Lun 19 mars 2007 13:29, Rahul Sundaram a écrit :
> > Benny Amorsen wrote:
> >>>>>>> "JB" == Josh Boyer <jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org> writes:
> >>
> >> JB> cpuspeed is very useful, especially in the case of a laptop which
> >> JB> several people use as their desktop. Your narrow definition of a
> >> JB> desktop is perhaps too limiting.
> >>
> >> cpuspeed really isn't optional on modern desktop machines either.
> >> Rahul Sundaram may have lots of machines with fixed clockspeeds, but
> >> that is no reason to not support newer stuff.
> >
> > There is simply no need to get personal. If hardware doesn't support it,
> > it needs to be disabled by default. Disagree?
>
> If a large proportion of hardware supports it, and launching it for the
> rest is relatively harmless, it needs to be enabled by default.

But it takes a finite amount of time to start the service, even on
machines without the hardware.

Richard.