-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A random question, just because I'm curious what others think on the subject: When setting up a Linux server, do you install X? Do you think it's nice to
work in a graphical environment when maintaining the server, or do you think it's a waste of resources? Just wondering what the group thinks. Ian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TEBgSiY+RXI7JS4RAtwlAJ9GhprOQ//ZW6/uTwHqMthyZXxtbgCePKuI VNgS+jnJ2hwDmHOqHbW444Y= =44vY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- [Toole, Robert] My 2 Cents: I think it depends on the type of Hardware you are using it on, If it is older HW, (Small hard-drives, slow CPU etc, then I'd not install X and use the remote tools previously mentioned, or my favorite, Webmin. On New hardware, I'd go ahead and install X. for example, the smallest HD you can get is 20 GB. Since you usually use more than one drive to spread out your various partitions, you have room to burn. I think a kitchen sink RH install is around 4.5 GB? With 2Ghz CPU's and tons of ram, most new servers are way overpowered nowadays. Example: We have an M$-Exchange server here, PIII 667, 1 GB ram serving 300 users, and CPU, Network and RAM never exceed 1 to 2%. That's with the stupid winblows GUI running all of the time! Nice thing is, with linux you can use runlevel 3 and not run the GUI till you need it. I like to ssh to the box, and run X sessions remotely. My 2 cents. Rob.
