[Bug 17503] GDM is loaded with Live CD: is this really necessary?

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------- Additional Comments From mdz at ubuntu.com  2005-10-10 22:03 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #0)
> Trying the Ubuntu LiveCD 5.10 RC, I run into some problem that required me to
> kill the X server. What a surprise was I was given a GDM login screen.
> Unfortunately, I couldn't choose a different session type (failsafe, e.g.), so
> that login screen was quite useless.

Why couldn't you choose a different session type?

> If so, wouldn't be a better idea to do not
> load the GDM on startup, saving both some seconds of loading time and some memory?

gdm doesn't require much in the way of resources, and this configuration allows
the live CD to remain very close to the way that the installed system works,
which is valuable both for maintainability and debugging purposes.

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