11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
2:38 p.m.
On 11 Jun 2009 at 17:09, Dave McGuire wrote:
*A console* on a server becomes useful if the
server needs to be
fixed. That console being a bit-mapped framebuffer with megabytes of
software required to support it adds huge amounts of complexity to a
debugging situation. Bad idea. This is why the very beefiest of
servers still have very simple serial consoles.
I agree with you, there. Unless I know that I'm going to need some
GUI interfaced program, I generally install *nix without X.
My exposure to Unix dates from about 1981 and it just feels wrong
somehow to run a GUI on top of it.
--Chuck