On 04/01/2015 05:53 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
Hi Tim, I understand your explanation... that is exactly the answer to my question.. Being I a beginner.., I just would understand better the philosophy of Linux. (I read that FEDORA is for: Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture)
Actually, "Fedora" is a tongue-in-cheek poke at the parent (Red Hat) company's logo (look at the Red Hat logo online...you'll see the man
in the logo is wearing a hat called a "Fedora"). Fedora is the alpha/beta, bleeding-edge version Red Hat Linux. You can think of it as the experimental hamster for the next release of Red Hat. Eventually, once a Fedora release is deemed "stable" enough, it's frozen and becomes the latest Red Hat Linux release (I think RHEL7 is based on Fedora 18...can't remember exactly).
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 09:03 +0300, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > - they are services (even if they are very common and important) > that have to be installed... Only if you need them. Just looking at what you've mentioned, previously. I'll make some *general* comments about them. SMART - if you're not actually going to pay attention to SMART warnings, there's little point having this service. A lot of people don't, so there's no point them running it. DHCP - if you're not meant to be a DHCP server (and you'd know about it if you were), then you don't need, and don't want, the DHCP server package installed and running. Most people are DHCP clients, not servers. You get the client software installed, by default. SAMBA - if you're not using SMB to share resources between computers (files and folders, or printers using SMB instead of directly accessing CUPS), then you don't need it. For instance, if you only have one computer, then you won't be trying to do this, and won't need it. Or, if *this* computer won't be sharing its resources to other computers, you won't need it, either. CUPS - if you don't have a printer, then you probably don't need it. I don't think you can remove it, not without also uninstalling a pile of other stuff you need (like almost the entire system, in previous releases of Fedora, and probably still does the same behaviour). You simply don't bother to turn the service on, if you don't need it. There is at least one case for using CUPS even if you don't have a printer, and that's for using it to create PDF or PostScript files. You can print to file, instead of to a printer, to create one of the. Though some programs have their own export of PDF function, that doesn't make use of CUPS. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.18.9-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 9 17:04:05 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
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