Re: Console only box?
On Jun 10, 2004, at 11:26 AM, cecil wrote:
Just curious, one of my madcap ideas i had today was the idea of a
console only install of debian, but with sound and sound progs
installed. Just for giggles, does anyone have a setup like this? No X,
just console? Are their IM programs, and such? How would you setup
such a install to have full functionality, just no X or X progs?
Of course there are... on most machines in the early 1990's, starting X
was only done for very specific applications because it took so much
horsepower to do it!
And there's zero reason to run X on most servers. Especially
security-hardened ones.
Unix/Linux started out as a command-line OS, and will always have
command-line equivalents for most things.
There are thousands and thousands of Linux machines out there running
without X.
X is just for desktop eye candy and cut-n-paste. ;-) Nothing that vi,
awk, sed, and grep couldn't conquer for 20 years prior...
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Nate Duehr, nate@natetech.com
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