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."
The last Gnu/Linux server install I performed (White Box Enterprise Linux 3) gave me four options - Personal Desktop, Workstation, Server, and Custom. Selecting the Server option does not install any kind of GUI, the Gnome/KDE environments, nor any media players.
Since this WBEL 3 is built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 sources (see http://whiteboxlinux.org/ for more info), I seriously doubt RHEL 3 behaves any differently.
Besides, any competent UNIX/Linux administrator does not need a GUI/Desktop environment to maintain a server. It's additional overhead is undesirable.
Literally everything can be done quickly and easily from the command line.