Fedora 10 Live CD services (all necessary?)

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Oct 9 14:41:56 UTC 2008


Naheem Zaffar wrote:
> Which ones?
> 
> Just asking someone else to both investigate the situation and then do
> the work is easy. Atleast the basic investigation step does not need a
> coder/developer. Find what you believe is extra and then ask why that
> is on, and if it can be turned off.
> 
> Pretty off topic, but I notice that NetworkManager, bluetooth and CUPS
> are all on and I suspect that they will be useful to most people.
> 
> Would it be possible to turn these off and have HAL (or some sort of
> hardware service manager) start them up if the relevant hardware is
> detected? (yes, I am also asking - call me hypocritical :P)

CUPS can autodetect network printers, which desktop users would no doubt 
find useful, even though there may be no local printing hardware.

Paul.




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