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) still thank you Regards On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> 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@lists.fedoraproject.org > 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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