From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 14 23:15:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4473416A4CE for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:15:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19BC43D2D for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:15:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 3653C1C0008D for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:15:20 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 197141C00089 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:15:20 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050214231520104.197141C00089@mwinf1106.wanadoo.fr Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:15:19 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <353141149.20050215001519@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4210D3DD.10808@makeworld.com> References: <382521231.20050213212528@wanadoo.fr> <1709020540.20050214172431@wanadoo.fr> <4210D3DD.10808@makeworld.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Freebsd vs. linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:15:21 -0000 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