Re: FW: System set-up

[Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:39 +0000, marc wrote:
> Ed Paris said...
> > *	320 MB of RAM
> > Would you advise me to run GNOME or KDE instead of staying with BASH?
> 
> You can do all three, if you like. ssh is the traditional way to admin a 
> server, but you might want to run a remote KDE/Gnome session on it, if 
> that's what you are more comfortable with. I often do the latter on a 
> few headless boxes that are locked away in a cold dark room. This 
> behaviour can cause seizures in the "command line or die" brigade, so 
> always wear dark glasses when doing so.

The memory footprint of gnome or kde or X is considerably larger. That
might be a reason not to run them.

Cheers, Dave