on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 06:31:24AM -0700, Neil Gibbs (dblack777@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Hey all, a Newbie here. Love Debian, but I noticed some things were
> not installed by default using the "simple" package install. On
> debian.org, some mention is made of this fact, but no detailed list of
> what is and isn't. For instance, telnetd and ftpd were nonexistent
> after install (I know, I know, I'm trying to install SSH as we speak).
> Anyone know of a good place to find a list of what Potato leaves out?
"Left out" is a highly qualitative term. Experienced users will tend to
view this as a feature, not a bug.
My preferred MO is to install a very minimal -- just base -- system,
then add additional packages as you find you need them.
Advantages:
- You don't have a lot of unexpected (and unnecessary) cruft on your
system. This creates overhead in updating, maintenance, and
security (you can't compromise what isn't there).
- You *know* what you've got on your system.
- You become very familiar with the Debian package management tools ;-)
This is an underappreciated fact. The hard parts of a Debian
install, for newbies, are the parts involving package selection and
management. With time, you're using these tools on a frequent
basis, and become familiar with them. Subesequent installs (almost
always on different systems -- Debian is the distro you install
once[1]) go far easier.
Cheers.
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Notes:
1. Actually, if you're like me, three times, for the first system you
install on. Once to see what it does. Twice to get it the way you
want. A third time to fix the errors you made in the second
attempt. I use this approach to _most_ new SW tools.
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