[openbeos] Re: Servers Preferences app

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:00:37 +0100 (MET)

That's also why BeOS itself disables some services when swapping is disabled 
(and tells the user with the nagging alerts)

En réponse à Axel Dörfler  <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> > 
> > Exactly  I use BeRestart all the time.  Except BeRestart doesn't
> > *permanently* kill servers, they will re-rear their ugly heads once 
> > BeOS
> > restarts (for example I don't much use print_server) and the only way
> 
> > to
> > totally disable it is to hack the bootscript, which not all average
> > Cathy/Joe/Stanley users want to do.
> 
> What, are you going to run BeOS on an embedded system where there is 
> not enough memory or no HD to swap?
> Do you think the average user will even realize that (s)he throws away
> 
> all those 600 kB the print_server actually uses? Do you really think 
> this is so important that someone should uses his free time to develop
> 
> an application that allows this?
> 
> Adios...
>    Axel.
> 
> 
> 
> 





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