On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 01:21:19PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090525163904.gb5...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: > >> If you don't want to run any "servers" then you don't want to run Gnome > >> (ORBit = CORBA server), KDE 3 (dcopserver), Xfce (notifications go via the > >> DBus server) or X11 (xorg is an X11 server). > > > >Who says that I don't want to run any servers? > > I inferred that based on this: > > In <20090524145214.ga16...@cat.rubenette.is-a-geek.com>, lee wrote: > >It doesn't matter to me which RDMBS is > >needed because I have none installed, and before I'm not needing one > >for something, I'm not going to install one --- and maybe even then I > >might not because my computer is a workstation and not a server. > > I interpreted that to mean "servers are not appropriate for my computer > because it isn't a server". I hope I showed by example how "servers" are not > foreign to your standard home PC.
Ok, I see what you mean. I do have servers running as much as they are needed/wanted for what I'm doing and as much as they don't require an undue amount of resources. But I don't need an RDBMS, no matter which one, as well as I don't need the kde application(s) that would require one. Therefore, it doesn't matter which RDBMS kde would require. Even if I wanted to run an RDBMS because it's needed for something I want, I'd think at least twice about it and look for another solution first to keep the resource usage low: There are some games I want to play, and I don't want to have to try stopping things that are running before I can play them smoothly. I also don't want to set up another computer to use as a server for things like that. That is what considering my comp a "workstation" is about, and it doesn't mean that I wouldn't run any servers at all on it. It means I want to keep it useable for what I'm doing rather than burden it unnecessarily. On a side note, what I could use is a Linux version of MS Access. That really is one very useful tool, and even that doesn't require an RDBMS. Unfortunately, the database part of openoffice just sucks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
