On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:28 -0700, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > I am planning on running a Squid Proxy, Postfix, > Apache, webmail server here at my company and I was > wondering if it was alright to run a Desktop or just > X-Windows on this server. I love using the > command-line and have become pretty proficient with it > (I always have a terminal open), but other people in > my department are not and a Desktop will help them out > a great deal. They're used to a Windows NT type > interface. > > I have always read that a desktop should not be > running on a server but there is never an explanation > as to why. Is there any problem with running a > desktop on a server other than performance issues? > The computer is a AMD 1.1 GHz with 1.256 GB RAM and > 80GB drive with only 70 users so it should handle it > just fine. Minimalism is one key to security: the less stuff that's running on your machine, the fewer openings there are for crackers. If they need a GUI, then only install the GUI apps themselves, and display them on a different machine. That will reduce the amount of X that is installed. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "I for one welcome our cross-platform word-processing overlords." Jeremy, on http://linuxtoday.com regarding StarOffice
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