Chuck Guzis wrote:
  I agree with you, there.  Unless I know that I'm
going to need some
 GUI interfaced program, I generally install *nix without X.
    
I was disappointed to learn that starting with Fedora 11, the text-mode
installer is no longer going to have feature parity with the GUI
installer.  For instance, it has lost support for LVM.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/NewTextUI