On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Michael M. Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > removing what's already here as it is, should I reinstall this? And the > reason for that is, as I intimated, primarily as learning experience.
I had missed that nuance. Based on your expanded explanation, I think this would be a great, useful exercise. And to simply answer the "core" question (again?), no, you do not "need" display manager for "normal" single-user installs. I ran without a display manager for years and years, and was never at a disadvantage for it. But. Unless you already have multiple computers, and perhaps even if you do, consider doing your paring and learning in a virtual machine. VMware server and Virtual Box are free and quite capable virtualization environments. Vbox would be a better choice if your experimentation will tend to be "desktop" oriented because it has better multimedia capabilities than vmware server. Vmware server would be better if you will be more "server" oriented because it handles varied network configs a bit more easily and gracefully. If you are looking for another interesting learning adventure, KVM may also be good choice, as it is emerging as a contender for the de-facto virtualization system on Linux going forward. regardless of which you choose, the odds of you ending up cornered because you tatered your primary computer are much smaller, which is always a good thing. -QH- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
