-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 August 2003 04:14, Kevin Anderson wrote: > There's no reason for X, so I wouldn't install it. Look at how installing > Media Player on Win2K server has bit them? Why would you do it on Linux > where you have the choice? Would you also install TWN, KDE, GNOME etc so > that different admins could all choose their preference? Heck, installing > some OpenGL screensavers can let your server look cool while it's not being > used...
what i have done for those want a GUI anyways on their server is to set up a script to run when they log in that starts up X with blackbox. set up a couple light weight monitoring tools for eye candy and to allow them to monitor the health of the system (gkrellm is good for that) and then pop a few items in the menu that do things like launch the system tools, logout their user (not just out of blackbox), start up a terminal, etc... you don't need any desktop tools, games, etc at all... perhaps just one screensaver (the one that blanks the screen) to provide some locking so someone can't idle by and do something funky with the machine. it's a compromise, but one that leaves me feeling at least ok about security (when was the last blackbox exploit? ;) and them feeling like they still have a comfy GUI ... as for web browsers, i find links (started up in an aterm, if in X) to be all the web browser one needs on a server. i especially like that when run in a an remotely over ssh it still transmits your mouse clicks =) with forms support, being mouse driven, having background downloading, etc, it's a perfect tool for getting access to the web from a server while keeping the security profile very low. - -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TiY81rcusafx20MRApOdAKCDOhJMJtN4/fWIxB4xIGGS6fmxqQCfa0O4 MqqWedJfVkdv/XD3zsyUWZw= =rHTn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
