On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:50:29 -0500 "R. G. Newbury" <newbury@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Sorta like your mother probably did many times when you > were a child. But it is time to stop playing parent to > everyone. That sums it up -- the nanny culture. I am very conservative with my server (running Centos 5.2). There are two things "out-of-release;" lighttpd (which is not in CentOS - highly recommended BTw) and I compiled postfix against dovecot instead of SASL. The firewall is tight, strong passwords and so on. Of course, not having physical access to the machine has something to do with it. OTOH, on my laptop I really don't care if my experimentation creates disaster. That's what backups are for. Every debacle has resulted in my learning something. In addition to being productive - this is supposed to be FUN. Moreover, Linux is supposed to stimulate intellectual curiosity. People need to lighten up a bit. Why should anyone care if this list has more "As root I did [thus and so]?" -- "Neither Lifestyle nor Agenda" http://www.tips-Q.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
