I’m hopping around after having used ubuntu for about 8 years as my primary desktop OS. I’m learning to like kde, and so far, openSUSE seems great. Anyway, on to the question:
I know that openSUSE is meant to be good for both desktop and server, but during the install, is there any way to specify which type of system you are setting up to avoid some of the server related stuff/settings in yast (NIS, Kerberos, Mail server, etc.) on a freshly installed desktop system ? If not, is it safe to just remove those things?
openSUSE defaults to a desktop focus read their goal. In other words just relax and stick to a default install with your DE of choice and you’ll have one of the best - if not the best - desktops in the Linux world. However, Yast is the king of configuration tools and can make turning any openSUSE installation into one of the most robust servers you’ll ever run with some very easy to use tools.
On 2013-03-13 13:56, 0xnak wrote:
> I know that openSUSE is meant to be good for both desktop and server,
> but during the install, is there any way to specify which type of system
> you are setting up to avoid some of the server related stuff/settings in
> yast (NIS, Kerberos, Mail server, etc.) on a freshly installed desktop
> system ?
No, no such setting. There are, though, some patterns that you can use
to choose typical server packages.
> If not, is it safe to just remove those things?
With the proper caution
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
During the installation you are required to select your preferred desktop environment (KDE, Gnome, etc.). If you select “Other” further choices such as minimal X and non-graphical server are presented. This determines what patterns/packages are installed initially. It does not affect the packages displayed in and available from YasT. That is dependent on the contents of the enabled repositories.
You can add and remove the YaST sections by installing/removing the appropriate packages (RPMs) using YaST Software Management. E.g. yast2-http-server or yast2-nfs-client.
On 03/13/2013 01:56 PM, 0xnak wrote:
> is there any way to specify which type of system
> you are setting up to avoid some of the server related stuff/settings in
> yast (NIS, Kerberos, Mail server, etc.) on a freshly installed desktop
> system ? If not, is it safe to just remove those things?
i see those who have already answered read your question exactly
backwards from the way i read it (and told you how to install a
server, only)–but, you asked how to have a desktop only
to have a pure desktop without those things you mentioned “(NIS,
Kerberos, Mail server, etc.)” you can take your choice of:
NOTE: before selecting any of these, read my sig’s caveat!
install the desktop of your choice and just accept the few other
modules that YaST installs for itself and what other stuff you might
consider only for servers (they don’t take much space) or
don’t let those things install in the first place: during initial
install, when you get to the install page named “Installations
Settings” which is shown on slide #10 at http://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/html/openSUSE/opensuse-startup
/art.osuse.installquick.html#sec.osuse.installquick.install click on
“Software” and then “Change” and go in and deselect those things you
do not want [note there might be connections between what you don’t
want and what you do want that if you disallow installation of what
you don’t want you later find that what you do want either won’t run
or does not run as expected!] or
as you asked, sure just delete them…BUT i strongly suggest you
do that by using YaST Software Management and expect it to pop up
warning messages that what you are wanting to uninstall will impact
other programs and offer you a series of possibilities kinda like, do
you want to:
-uninstall X and break Y and Z
-uninstall X anyway
-not uninstall X
and do not be surprised if when you are finished deleting stuff
that your system is not as stable as you had wished!
now for me, personally i have never had need for samba or kerberos,
but i let it install and i leave it…because one time i tried not to
install samba and decided it was easier to take it than to not take it.
those things are ‘just’ software and they do not take much
room…now, on the other hand there is mail that the system generates
for root, and if you don’t let that mail server run you won’t get
those mails…so !
on the other hand, last install i did not install apper by
deselecting it during #2 above
Even if you’re a desktop only user, don’t remove the stuff that was installed on your system when you picked the desktop of choice. openSUSE / linux is a coherent system, where everything can use everything. You’ll likely break that and end up with an unstable system.
