Linked by Adam S on Tue 28th Sep 2004 22:29 UTC
I've been using Windows as a network administrator for just over 6 years now. I've used NT4 servers, 2000 servers, and Windows 2003, and there has been a tremendous improvement with each version. There are still some things that drive me nuts in my job, though, and this is a chronicle of the top five.
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"If you install RHEL/SuSE/Mandrake/Debian, you get GNOME/KDE. Gnome/KDE is needed for all kinds of server configurations - printing, web, services, etc. Once you install Gnome/KDE, you automatically get all the media players (arts/xmms/esd)
I've not yet seen a Gnome-Server-Only or KDE-Server-Only package."
Didn't look very hard, did you? I'd lay money there's a way with all the distros you mentioned (PS. Mandrake isn't a server distro) - I installed KDE on my machines, because I wanted a GUI, but could have happily skipped that if I really wanted.
I'm not sure exactly how GNOME and KDE are required for these services you claim - Apache works fine without a GUI on the server, for example. Haven't tried with CUPS, but I'd bet it does too.
And no, you don't automatically get "all the media players". XMMS has *nothing* to do with KDE, and afaik not GNOME either. KDE can be installed without aRts quite happily - for a server you could happily skip the entire multimedia package, as well as the games etc.
I'm not bothered that you're saying something against his holiness the penguin, but you should try to make sure you're right before doing so.