yes of course that is possible, but hardly necessary. many people would regard anything X with suspicion on a server. But hey, this is linux, you have a choice.
Back to the original question, one distro springs to mind that is designed with this sort of functionality in mind smeserver, formerly e-smith. http://www.e-smith.org/ There now seem to be commercial and free versions, you'll have to sort that out yourself. the other place to look is http://www.distrowatch.org On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:41:29 +1300 Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick says: > > you don't want to burden yourself with a gui, so get used > > to the command line, or webmin and/or swat (the latter for > > samba). > > As long as you can ssh into it, you can run any of the > mandrake gui tools. X forwarding is pretty standard on most > ssh installs. > > > many people pick debian stable for a server, and thats a > > good choice too. > > > > mandrake will, of course, do it all, but it will want to > > install X, which you can cancel I guess. > > Even if you install it, you can change the runlevel to boot > gui-less. > You may need some of the X libs and QT and/or GTK libs to > launch X apps, even if they display on a remote box. > You won't need a high-specced box, just need enough room for > X on the HD. > > Yuri -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
