[Rule] Is Gnome/KDE the greatest bloat?

[M. Fioretti]

(posting again because it had been blocked by a badly managed
RBL)

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 07:15:55 AM +0200, M. Fioretti (mfioretti at nexaima.net) wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 06:30:11 AM +0200, C David Rigby
> (c.david.rigby at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > Debian is rather minimal, but the standard installer's minimum base
> > system is still a rather complete "unix-like" system. This is fine
> > with me, but perhaps a single user, desktop system could do without
> > some of the programs that are considered necessary for a multi-user
> > *nix. Could it do without the mail server, for instance?
> 
> The problem of Linux and Unix is that there are lots of basic
> utilities, daemons and such, launched from cron or otherwise, which
> give for granted they can pass a message to sendmail to inform the
> sysadmin when things go wrong. So you can do without a mail server if
> you can still use the system after you have hunted down and removed
> those tools, or if you can let them run and never ever care of what
> they'd have to say.
> 
> So, "without" is probably too much. "Replacing sendmail, postfix or
> exim with that minimal SMTP server whose name escapes me now, which is
> enough for these internal tasks"... is another thing.
> 
> Marco
> 
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