Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:15:19 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd vs. linux Message-ID: <353141149.20050215001519@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <4210D3DD.10808@makeworld.com> References: <382521231.20050213212528@wanadoo.fr> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEGIFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1709020540.20050214172431@wanadoo.fr> <4210D3DD.10808@makeworld.com>
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Chris writes: > That's a matter of point of view. If the user using FBSD uses a WM of > his/her choice, and they are happy with the way if works - there isn't > an issue. Perhaps, but in a more objective sense, GUIs are an unnecessary complication on servers. Most of the time, nobody is looking at the monitor. Sometimes there is no monitor. A GUI just squanders resources on a server that might need those resources for something else someday. None of the server operations that a sysadmin might have to carry out needs a GUI. Operations that must be done remotely are a thousand times faster to do with a simple terminal CLI than with a bandwidth-hogging GUI. And the present of a GUI on the server destabilizes the machine, for reasons I have already explained. -- Anthony
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