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["Fredrik Holmqvist" <fredrik.holmqvist@xxxxxxxxx>]

2006/5/24, Waldemar Kornewald <wkornew@xxxxxxx>:
> Axel DÃrfler wrote:
> > Waldemar Kornewald <wkornew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> I'd also like to see telnetd, the daemon, being kept. It has its
> >>> uses
> >>> too, oddly enough.
> >> Here, I have to disagree. :)
> >> * Haiku is not a server OS
> >
> > The only thing you're not having in mind is our target audience for R1,
> > I guess - Haiku just won't be the dumb GUI user only OS. This is a
> > niche OS for the time being, probably even forever (even if that niche
> > is hopefully getting bigger with time). Our R1 user base will be
> > technically advanced, we can as well adapt to this fact by delivering
> > those tools you'd expect to be there.
>
> You wouldn't use Win98 for a server, either, would you? Haiku R1 will
> not be a secure OS and thus should not come with server apps, so people
> don't get the wrong impression.
>
> I'm not forgetting our target audience for R1, but later it will be very
> difficult to change something in the OS. People will expect it to be
> there and shout very loudly if some daemon is missing (or replaced) in
> R2. We should take the chance and show what we're heading at.
>
> Bye,
> Waldemar
Who wants to remove them then?

I want to keep them, and it looks like most others wants that too. They have
saved my ass many times, and I'd expect a good OS to have the tool to save
ones ass at all times. You can always make them 'optional' when the
installer is made.

--
Fredrik Holmqvist
Chaordic: things that thrive on the edge of chaos with just enough order to
give them pattern, but not so much to slow their adaptation and learning.