On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Andrew Woodhead <[email protected]> wrote: > It may be a low resource gui but running an X server adds extra services > running which lowers security. There are also more things that can crash and > hang the system. Fewer complications make a better server
Personally, I'd tend to agree, but people coming across from Windows expect a GUI on a machine. A lot of modern Windows users never ever even look at the command line & have no idea how to use one - so a server that boots to nothing but a command line is going to be seen as scary and intimidating. Zentyal makes a decent effort in this direction. A modern server will have gigs of RAM, a several-gigaHertz CPU and a graphics card, because you simply can't build a machine without these things any more. They picked a really lightweight desktop and stripped it right out to put Zentyal together, and that seems a good choice to me. I would like it if it were an optional install, to be honest, but it worked fine on a couple of test machines for me. And I thought the stripping-out of LXDE might be useful or relevant to Lubuntu, but I'm beginning to regret saying anything now...! :¬) -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: [email protected] • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: [email protected] Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: [email protected] • ICQ: 73187508 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
