From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jun 25 03:49:51 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 707F298C1B6 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 03:49:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from douhisi.pair.com (douhisi.pair.com [209.68.5.179]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5142514D0 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 03:49:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from quartz@sneakertech.com) Received: from [10.2.2.1] (pool-173-48-121-235.bstnma.fios.verizon.net [173.48.121.235]) by douhisi.pair.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 09F9A3F6CD for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:49:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <558B7A5C.80504@sneakertech.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:49:48 -0400 From: Quartz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any utils worth installing a GUI on a server for? References: <558B3F60.7060809@sneakertech.com> <558B41A3.1050506@gmail.com> <558B45C1.3040101@sneakertech.com> <86h9pwpp6z.fsf@WorkBox.Home> In-Reply-To: <86h9pwpp6z.fsf@WorkBox.Home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 03:49:51 -0000 > Have you given any thought to FreeNAS? I need to do more than what freenas can offer in this case. > Would you benefit from having multiple xterms open? You know, a couple > of command lines for your use, a couple for showing the status of the > machine, etc. All on screen at the same time. Needing multiple windows isn't my issue. I frequently have multiple ssh sessions/terms open to a given machine when I'm messing with it, and if for some reason that's not an option I'll just use screen or tmux. There's no way I'd install an entire window manager just for that. I'm mainly looking for anything cool or useful that either can't be run through a terminal or otherwise benefits from having some sort of GUI. Stuff like GParted or gnome-disk-utility or something (although I don't think either of those are awesome enough in themselves to justify installing a whole WM). It doesn't have to be gnome/kde/xfce or even X based really, I have no restrictions, I'm just curious what's out there.