On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:23:29PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:08:58PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
> >
> > For me, if something flat out requires a GUI I go and find a different
> > way. My firewall box for example has no gui apps at all, no X files at
> > all... Its a command-line only box.
> >
> > I use su. Its only me; I'd need an exta admin person to help me setup
> > sudo :) I limit su to the group adm
> >
> Believe me, I totally understand. At home, my firewall has no GUI or
> GUI apps, other than xterm (long story). However, right now I am
> working at a place that uses Oracle (gui-only installer) and RHEL.
> Since the senior admin is RedHat-trained, as in the company sent him to
> all the RedHat classes, he believes in using all the RedHat-provided GUI
> tools. So, our servers which really don't have a good reason to run
> GUIs, do in fact run GUIs.
>
I switched from RH to Debian for two reasons:
The RH GUIs kept crashing
RH compiled their then new version to need a pentium and I was
running a 486 with 16 MB ram.
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.
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?
Doug.
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