From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 14 22:38:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D91816A420 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:38:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E18C13C465 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:38:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDESK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id lBEMcdKu045333; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:38:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Barnaby Scott" , "cpghost" Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:39:42 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1914 In-Reply-To: <47629FA9.9020609@waywood.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: RE: Absolute FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:38:48 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: Barnaby Scott [mailto:bds@waywood.co.uk] > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 7:22 AM > To: cpghost > Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: Re: Absolute FreeBSD > > > It is aimed pretty squarely at budding sysadmins, not desktop users (X > is hardly even mentioned), We have many FreeBSD servers at my job that do many different things for people. Only 1 of them requires X in any form at all - and all it uses are the X libraries to do some graphics processing. It does not run a window manager. You can get a huge amount of useful work done on FreeBD without having anything to do with X. Ted No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.17.2/1184 - Release Date: 12/14/2007 11:29 AM