Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:52:33 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>, "Peter" <fbsdq@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: About Unix Message-ID: <005f01c0a86d$e64420a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <014e01c0a826$4f5a1060$0200a8c0@apana.org.au>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Doug Young >Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 3:20 PM >To: Peter; freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: About Unix > > >> Offtopic, but I'm just curios why do you never use FreeBSD as a >> workstation? Why use Solaris as a workstation instead of FreeBSD [I'm >> assuming you are talking Solaris x86], if not this question > /dev/null. > >Simple .... I've occasionally waded through configuring X during setup of a >gateway >system & invariably had problems getting it to a usable state. Those that I >have had >working didn't impress me anyway ... all the important config items are >command line >things, so for server use there is no advantage I'm aware of in having X.. You may not want to configure X but I'd suggest you install it. Many packages have dependencies on the X11 libraries. Also, while I agree that there's little use for X _servers_ on servers, there's definitely a use for X clients. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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