From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 31 11:53:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from s1-c2.cnmnetwork.com (s1-c2.cnmnetwork.com [209.163.64.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9AE5137B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 11:53:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 15040 invoked from network); 31 Oct 2000 11:52:30 -0800 Received: from prometheus.cnmnetwork.com (HELO compton) (irc@209.79.28.5) by s1-c2.cnmnetwork.com with SMTP; 31 Oct 2000 11:52:30 -0800 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:02:14 -0800 (PST) From: jrz Reply-To: jrz Subject: Re: Installer To: security@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: Fxg69ebf3kMPnl9z5LZ93w== X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.4 SunOS 5.8 i86pc i386 Message-Id: <20001031195325.9AE5137B4C5@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think FreeBSD does a pretty good job at keeping the default install to a minimal. I can think of other free OS' that come loaded with 3rd party software. >On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:25:05PM +0100, Andreas Alderud wrote: >> My only wish for FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE is that it will be as small as >> possible, right now there are tons of stuff in 4.1 being installed that I >> don't need. >> For example, I don't see the reason why Sendmail is installed by default, >> many people need it, most people don't, those who do would be better off it >> was handled as a port. Some people would surtanly rather want PostFix being >> installed. >> I'm curious if I'm the only minimalist around here, personally I find it >> much simpler to secure and administrate a box if it just includes only the >> stuff that is absolutly needed. >> > --- Jacob Zehnder Systems Engineer CNM Network / http://www.cnmnetwork.com business: jrz@cnmnetwork.com other: jrz@rackmount.org --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message