On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:31 PM, David Leeming <da...@leeming-consulting.com > wrote:
> > I have never tried selecting the Gnome option, but a nice GUI would be > useful for users with limited grasp of command line stuff for file > management. Maybe that is available already > > > David Leeming > Solomon Islands Rural Link > > Managing a system with Gnome sounds seductive, but I can't think of a faster way to bork up a server than to let a novice admin loose in GUI tools with root powers. For file management, say a user level directory under /var/www/html, far better to mount it with sshfs from a remote system (there's even a Windows tool for that called dokan). That way you can have the ease of a GUI filesystem tool without the risks of actually running a Window Manager on the server itself. Not to mention installing Gnome and X Windows and all the deps takes a ton of space. Anna Schoolfield Birmingham
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