Re: Debian-Lite : The Project
On Sat, 02 Aug 1997 > From: wb2oyc@bellatlantic.net wrote:
> On 15:18:49 "Robert D. Hilliard" wrote:
> >
> > I think this should be the main object of a smaller version of
> >debian (Please not Debian Lite!). A normal debian installation loads
> >up a single user machine with a lot of unneeded and unwanted server and
> >network administration stuff.
> >
> >Bob
> >
> Man, do I like this idea! I really like Linux, and all it offers, and I really
> appreciate Debian, but just yesterday I was saying to myself, I wish that
> someone with the skills would put together a Linux better suited to the
> single user environment where many (most?) of us use our home systems.
> Free from all the hassles of permissions, root privelege to do this or that,
> etc! Right on! For a user like myself anyway, it sure makes a helluva lot
> more sense than all the multi-user protections/permissions and such. I
> for one, get really frustrated with such things, and it really ticks me off that
> if I ftp a file then I can't move it to some directory before I unzip it or thin
> gs
> like that. Everyone says don't run as root and use 'su' but damnit, some
> of this is nuts when the machine is really only an individual's workstation,
> or at least I think it gets in the way, and probably frustrates the hell out of
> a lot of people that finally give it up!
>
> Paul
I didn't mean to go that far. I've done too much damage running
as root when it wasn't necessary - even when it is necessary to run as
root, and I'm being "CAREFUL", I've screwed up more things than I like
to admit.
I mean to omit news servers, web servers, NFS, NIS, bind and
similar programs that are needed by ISP's and network administrators,a
but not by an individual running a single user machine.
Bob
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