Ubuntu Live and sshd

[David Hart]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 02:43:55PM -0800, Vram wrote:
> It is a difference in philosophy.

Hmm.  I disagree.  Compare the Debian Social Contract:
    http://www.debian.org/social_contract
with the Gentoo Social Contract:
    http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml
...  they seem very similar to me.  In fact Gentoo even refers to the
Debian SC.

Both distros IMO, are usually considered at the 'geeky' end of the
spectrum.  Both distros by default give you a very basic server type
install (Debian used to drop you into 'dselect' during the install -
you didn't need a degree in computer science to get you out of that,
just luck in pushing the correct obscure combination of keys ;)

Ubuntu builds on the same philosiphy with the addition that it's
'Linux for Human Beings'.  It doesn't (rightly) run any remotely
accessible servers on a default install so, why immediately run
openssh-server when you install it?

This is not a complaint - merely an observation of what appears to
me to be a little 'quirk'.
 
> Gentoo was a roll your own distribution ..
 
s/was/is/ ;)  and, given what I've said above, I think that applies
to Debian too.
 
> In Ubuntu they do thing for you....And this is not neither good or bad
> it is just the way it is....   You buy into that went you purchase the
> product.  
> 
> Being Linux you  are free to change all that...  Turn stuff on... Turn
> stuff off....

Sure!  If you know what you're doing you can take just about any
distro and bend it any way you want.

> My $0.02

and mine ;)

-- 
David Hart <ubuntu at tonix.org>