Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (34 mails)

[Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@xxxxxxxxx>]

 --- Tony Whitmore <tonywhitmore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

> With modern hardware, the overhead of running an X server is rarely an 
> issue, in terms of memory usage. OK, there may be issues with security 
> on unpatched systems, but that's the same with any networking software 
> that isn't kept up to date. If the X server isn't being interacted with,

> then it should not place any load on the CPU.

Perhaps, perhaps. :) But the memory it still takes up is never released.
But does it have to be X? There have been attempts to make the console
more managable. YAST does this to an extent (albeit poorly at times, for
some things). 

There used to be linuxconf, which was an amalgum of various things -- an
all-in-one bundle for ease of administration, but it never really worked
out....

I suppose the idea of using X is nothing new on a server. RH have been
doing it for years.....

-- Thomas Adam

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