What is Your optimal configuration?

gentoobrother · n00b Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 44

Now I know that this may sound nooby, but I'm just curious what kind of services are Gentoo users running on their desktop Linux boxes.
I can tell You now that this is my rc-status:
Runlevel: default
acpid [ started ]
alsasound [ started ]
dbus [ started ]
fcron [ started ]
gpm [ started ]
hald [ started ]
local [ started ]
net.eth0 [ started ]
nscd [ started ]
xdm [ started ]

I'm running this on an Asus laptop. I don't know if this os optimal. I would just like to know what other users run to make their systems as optimal as possible. What kind of services are redundant and which may help You in Your everyday work. Which are mandatory to keep a system safe and stable. This is an open thread without any strict answers so You are welcom to post Your comments and maybe others besies me to understand how to run smooth installation of Gentoo.

Cheers
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mbreith · Apprentice Joined: 09 Mar 2006 Posts: 196

I currently have acpid, alsasound, local, and netmount. That's all.

I'm not sure why you have gpm unless you are doing a lot of work without X. Since you also have xdm I am guessing not.

iptables is a service that would also be running here, yes. We should probably both get that set up sometime soon.

Actually, now that I look closer at what I have, I really don't think I need netmount. I'm not loading any networked file systems. I don't think it is going to hurt anything sitting there though.
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zaai · Apprentice Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 175

Runlevel: default
acpid [ started ]
alsasound [ started ]
apache2 [ started ]
avahi-daemon [ started ]
bluetooth [ started ]
cupsd [ started ]
dbus [ started ]
gpm [ started ]
hald [ started ]
hotplug [ started ]
lisa [ started ]
local [ started ]
mysql [ started ]
mythbackend [ started ]
net.eth0 [ started ]
ntp-client [ started ]
pktcdvd [ started ]
postfix [ started ]
samba [ started ]
sensord [ stopped ]
sshd [ started ]
syslog-ng [ started ]
vixie-cron

I'm using this box for my home multimedia, mediawiki and file share server and have cron running for automated backup. avahi is experimental for discovering the print server.
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