vincentm77 wrote:Well, I don't ! I would like to know whether I need them or not... and the list of services displayed by drakxservices does not help much (I may need to google each service and check what it does...)
See above, I posted the descriptions for the services you mentioned, and also how to obtain the descriptions.
Can be done either via
systemctl or by mouse-over on the service name in drakxservices.
If you don't have good in-depth knowledge of the lower linux plumbing layers, it's hard to know whether you could eventually disable some service without impact. But the gains are usually absolutely minimal, if at all noticeable due to parallel boot.
But a feasible approach would be to look at which service causes a noticeable delay during boot, and to ask if that can be fixed some way or another.
You already got that recommendation in an earlier thread:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7423Don't hesitate to ask if there are further questions.
vincentm77 wrote:I trust Mageia to have (after a clean install) the services running that a "normal" user would need (no apache server...)
Well, servers are a different thing then services. The Mageia policy on server daemons (which usually expose your host in a certain way to the network) is that they are usually not enabled after installation,
the administrator would have to enable them explicitly. Popular examples include sshd, mysql, apache and similar.