How about installing just the services you want?

Telnet? No. Samba? No. CUPS? No. Bluetooh? God, no.

Install the things you want and the things they rely on and otherwise 
have a base, basic and un-blemished OS.

I love my BSD.

On 2/3/2013 3:35 PM, Yaron wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Brian Wood wrote:
>
>> I've been using Fedora, but am thinking about trying out another
>> distro.  I'd like to find one that is service oriented.  Fedora starts
>> bluetooth, cups and some other services that I don't think service
>> providers want.  Any ideas?  Thanks.
>
> How about disabling services you don't want?
>
> No Linux... heck, no UNIX... heck, no OS will install itself exactly 
> the way you want it. You'll always have to make adjustments. So just 
> do them in the OS you're used to.
>
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