Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:04:41 +0000 From: Barnaby Scott <bds@waywood.co.uk> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Absolute FreeBSD Message-ID: <47630C09.3090709@waywood.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCOEDHCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCOEDHCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Barnaby Scott [mailto:bds@waywood.co.uk] >> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:22 AM >> To: cpghost >> Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; FreeBSD Mailing List >> Subject: Re: Absolute FreeBSD >> >> >> It is aimed pretty squarely at budding sysadmins, not desktop users (X >> is hardly even mentioned), > > We have many FreeBSD servers at my job that do many different things > for people. Only 1 of them requires X in any form at all - and all it > uses are the X libraries to do some graphics processing. It does not > run a window manager. You can get a huge amount of useful work done > on FreeBD without having anything to do with X. > > Ted It wasn't a criticism - I just wanted to point out the sort of audience the book speaks to: people who run servers - who, as you say, have little or no need for X. I wanted to learn exactly the sort of stuff the book focused on, and loved it. Barnaby
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