Re: Musings on debian-user list
On 2009-07-29 19:04, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Ron Johnson Wrote
On 2009-07-28 13:09, Mark wrote:
[snip]
When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install
without the
desktop environment.
But what will you *do* with it? Mutt will frustrate you to no end, and
the intarweb has become too graphics-oriented to make lynx/elinks
widely useful.
>
Some of us run servers :-)
And presumably you're experienced enough to run Mutt. Give OP some
time...
I've been running headless Debian servers for years, never used anything
but a command line to manage them.
I guess I could run X-Windows remotely, but never really saw a need to -
ssh to a command prompt is just fine.
You're right. Keep it X-less.
Unless you've got an Oracle database. In which case you *must*
install X. Grrrr.
Now, if I used Debian for my desktop environment, that might be a
different story, but I got sucked into Macs a long time ago.
--
Scooty Puff, Sr
The Doom-Bringer
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