[wplug] running "lean"

[John Harrold]

Sometime in August Doug Green assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| I've got Redhat 7.2, default install ("workstation" class) on a Dell 
| PIII 450- but I'm not against upgrading to a newer distro. I would like 
| to have net access, and I'd like XWindows, but don't need a graphical 
| login... beyond that, I do not run (and do not want to run) any servers 
| (no sshd, no httpd, telnet, etc). When I start up my computer it goes 
| through a very extensive list of things it's turning on- I'd like to 
| have that list down to the minimum required for net access and single 
| user applications.
| I do not use sshd, and I'm certain there are other services starting up 
| that I do not use or need... It seems as though the entire system is 
| more bloated and less responsive under linux than under windows, which 
| should not be the case. The only thing I can think of is that I have a 
| ton of services running that I simply don't need. How are these 
| controlled, and is there a list of "nono's" that I shouldn't touch (ie: 
| crond, or other essential system services)? If I remember correctly, I 
| can start/stop services on a running machine with something like 
| "/usr/sbin/services/servicename stop" but I'd like to set it up so that 
| these things don't start in the first place.
| -D.

hey doug.

first: i really think you should upgrade. i don't believe redhat supports,
or is about to quit supporing, redhat 7.x and 8. 

second: when you say unresponsive are you talking about it serving web
pages slowly, or are you talking about windows are moving around slowly? if
it's the latter you should try a low end windows manager.


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