On Jun 10, 2004, at 11:26 AM, cecil wrote:
Just curious, one of my madcap ideas i had today was the idea of a console only install of debian, but with sound and sound progs installed. Just for giggles, does anyone have a setup like this? No X, just console? Are their IM programs, and such? How would you setup such a install to have full functionality, just no X or X progs?
Of course there are... on most machines in the early 1990's, starting X was only done for very specific applications because it took so much horsepower to do it!
And there's zero reason to run X on most servers. Especially security-hardened ones.
Unix/Linux started out as a command-line OS, and will always have command-line equivalents for most things.
There are thousands and thousands of Linux machines out there running without X.
X is just for desktop eye candy and cut-n-paste. ;-) Nothing that vi, awk, sed, and grep couldn't conquer for 20 years prior...
-- Nate Duehr, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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