From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 9 13:15:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01EFE37B72E for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 13:15:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA24762; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 07:15:02 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from bryden.apana.org.au(203.3.126.129), claiming to be "roadrunner" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdk24755; Sat Mar 10 07:14:58 2001 Message-ID: <011501c0a8de$200cf4e0$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , "Peter" , References: <005f01c0a86d$e64420a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Subject: Re: About Unix Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 07:15:51 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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