On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:46:16PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I switched from RH to Debian for two reasons: > You are preaching to the converted, as they say. > The RH GUIs kept crashing > Hmm. Never experienced this. > RH compiled their then new version to need a pentium and I was > running a 486 with 16 MB ram. > Well, that is their perogative, I guess. Was this before they dropped the free community distro or after? > Isn't having the GUI stuff on a server inherently less secure? I do 95% > of what I want or need to with: bash, mc, pinfo, lynx, mutt, and wget. > Add vim and python and we're up to 98%. All from the command line, and > if I want all from a serial terminal. That only leaves browsing > graphic websites and watching DVDs. For development, add Fortran77. > I get what you are saying. I work mostly in a gnome-terminal (home) or a konsole (work). Pesonally, I prefer to use a terminal emulator that can let me have multiple terminals open at once, espcially since I am often logged in to multiple machines at once. > How do you fix a remote server with a dead network if all you know are GUIs? > Can a GUI link up over a modem? > ILO? Or something similar? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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