Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:29:53 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM: Score 3.7: Re: Instead of freebsd. com, why not... Message-ID: <42130481.8000406@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <1613371449.20050216040529@wanadoo.fr> References: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641B03@mvaexch01.acuson.com> <1613371449.20050216040529@wanadoo.fr>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: >Johnson David writes: > > > >>Speaking of GUIs, the mere existance of /usr/ports/x11/xorg-6.8.1 does >>not affect the performance or reliability of a FreeBSD server. Neither >>does actually installing it. >> >> > >You're half right. Installing it destabilizes the server, and requires >making compromises on security. > > > Care to extrapolate on your comment? You'll need X just to install Oracle on your server. Typically I install X (and nothing else, like; WM, desktop, gtk, qt, fonts, etc.) and links on my servers. This is because it's sometimes useful to do your googling (etc.) for why your server isn't working right at the server and for administering/installing web apps. text mode browsers just suck.
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