From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Mar 8 23:52:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A4F37B718 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:52:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f297qXN01566; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:52:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Doug Young" , "Peter" , Subject: RE: About Unix Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:52:33 -0800 Message-ID: <005f01c0a86d$e64420a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> 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 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <014e01c0a826$4f5a1060$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >-----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