Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 07:15:51 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, "Peter" <fbsdq@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: About Unix Message-ID: <011501c0a8de$200cf4e0$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> References: <005f01c0a86d$e64420a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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> 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. Like what specifically ?? ..... I use GUI things like webmin & ntop in several situations but they don't need X. I can imagine that a remote X would maybe possibly be useful at times if the various configuration files had a GUI ... some of the database ones ?? .. but the little I've seen of remote X applications has not been impressive (apart from the excellent VNC of course) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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