On 11/17/05, Peter Van Lone
right .. it's called experience. 600 hours is only 15 weeks of experience. I don't have a problem with it, and did not complain. What I orginally said was "stop calling names of linux newbies that rely/use the GUI on a server to get work done"
Yes, I agree that calling newbies names for using a GUI is wrong. I have seen a number of newbies that start out with installing a GUI on a server, until I show them that it is not really needed. Now they run GUI stuff they need over ssh to thier workstations. :-) I think one thing where MS damaged people is by instilling this idea that a good server should have a GUI. When I was still a Windows user, I used to think of UNIX as an old, outdated system, with a horrible user-interface. All mono-chrome.. That was until I actually saw a real live UNIX machine and worked on it. It opened my eyes. I was lucky, I suppose, that my first interaction with UNIX was from a Sun Sparcstation, running CDE, with telnet sessions to an HP development server. I never really used the Sun box for anything else, than it's X-server, so I could run Nedit (a graphical editor) on the HP box.
lists of people carping about "noobs that put a gui on a server" ... well, damn ... if it makes the transition and traslation to linux easier why, as a linux advocate, would you (not you personally) want to be so freaking hostile about it?
I don't have a problem with noobs putting a GUI on a server, I have a problem with experienced admins running a GUI on a server. (I did not mean to offend noobs, sorry) I also have a problem with SLES defaulting to a GUI install. I expected it to default to the minimal install, or options like "Webserver", "Mail server", "File Server", etc and then you pick the options you want. But the default Graphical desktop install threw me a bit. I thought about it a bit and I can see valid reasons for an experienced sysadmin to install a full desktop on SLES: 1) If you want to use it for a desktop workstation (You lost all your SUSE Linux or NLD media or something) :-) 2) You set up a LTSP server where people will run desktops from dumb terminals. -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~