Linked by Ian Carder on Tue 12th Apr 2005 04:10 UTC
With some free time and some spare equipment lying around, I decided to give Novell's Open Enterprise Server an install. I work in a Netware environment, but given recent trends, I decided to try and drop OES on a fresh SuSE Enterprise install. This isn't a comprehensive review; rather it's just some comments while I was just playing around. It might give people a better idea what OES actually is.
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Windows isn't as modular as Unix systems. On Windows, a failure in the graphical layer can damage the whole system, on Linux, a failure of KDE or X is just the failure of another application, the server will keep on chugging. If you've got an appropriately set up firewall you shouldn't have too many security issues (most of KDE's involve using the web-browser, email, io-slav tools, none of which you should be doing as a super-user).
In any event, the KDM allows you to "Shutdown the X-Server" and drop you into the console, from which you can type "kdm" (or maybe "startx kdm", been a while since I did this) to start things up again.
The concern I would have is logging into a graphical environment as root: it would be better to log in as a normal user (in case you do use the KDE web-browser), and then run YaST and the administrative tools as root. This is perfectly easy to do, you start the tools as normal from the K-Menu, and the system will prompt you for the root password.