Service enabled by default

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon Jun 6 11:27:20 UTC 2011


On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:08:10 +0000,
  "\"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\"" <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it's time for the Gnome desktop team to revisit and review which 
> services are enabled by default on the livecd/usb and enable only those 
> that benefit the novice desktop end user.
> 
> Alot of services are enabled by default that are aimed at enterprise 
> users and to some extend enterprise hardware usages which would never be 
> used on a regular desktop/tablet/notebook pc like for example fcoe, 
> lldpad, iscsi, iscsid, mdmonitor etc. which administrators should enable 
> encase they use it in their enterprise environment.
> 
> A bit of discussion about this is happening in bug 707553

For some of these, the issue is more about detecting the attached hardware
and only enabling the services on install that are actually usable.
When running as a live image, those services should be enabled so that
they can use the hardware if it is present.


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