Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:54:53 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd vs. linux Message-ID: <42113A4D.6040908@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <353141149.20050215001519@wanadoo.fr> References: <382521231.20050213212528@wanadoo.fr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEGIFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1709020540.20050214172431@wanadoo.fr> <4210D3DD.10808@makeworld.com> <353141149.20050215001519@wanadoo.fr>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Chris writes: > > >>That's a matter of point of view. If the user using FBSD uses a WM of >>his/her choice, and they are happy with the way if works - there isn't >>an issue. > > > Perhaps, but in a more objective sense, GUIs are an unnecessary > complication on servers. Most of the time, nobody is looking at the > monitor. Sometimes there is no monitor. A GUI just squanders resources > on a server that might need those resources for something else someday. > None of the server operations that a sysadmin might have to carry out > needs a GUI. Operations that must be done remotely are a thousand times > faster to do with a simple terminal CLI than with a bandwidth-hogging > GUI. And the present of a GUI on the server destabilizes the machine, > for reasons I have already explained. > I will agree on this point - A server does not NEED to a WM (none of mine do). However, I am speaking from a desktop point of view. -- Best regards, Chris You sure have to borrow a lot of money these days to be an average consumer.
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