Xandros Corporation has announced the availability of Xandros Server, the company's inaugural release of a high-end server distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux: "Xandros becomes the first Linux platform to provide a 'Debian Enterprise' end-to-end desktop and server platform."
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Member since:2006-02-20
I see where you're coming from, but what I was talking about is there are two times when running servers (but can be applied to most other situations as well), when it's pretty much necessary to consider not using anything graphical on the server at all. Specifically, it's servers that make money and servers that are connected to the net. And I suggest this for all business from SOHO to SMB to Megacorps, and homeusers who put servers on the net. There's no reason to add more software than is necessary when the requirements for those machines is as close to 100% uptime, reliability, and security as possible.
Like where I work, we have databases whose value are in the millions of dollars and are connected to the net. Those servers are absolutely stripped down to minimize any outages caused by software instability or security breaches. I mean there is no x-server, no gui's, they don't even have monitors.
Maybe for a home file server, yes, gui's are ok then. But if you are using it to make money with, any downtime is money lost and that's unacceptable when it's not necessary.
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2005-07-06
if you're doing anything with this server that puts it out on the web or into production, you really should think about climbing the learning curve and use nothing but the cli or webbased tools such as webmin.
It looks like you're suggesting that only people who are new to server administration would use a graphical admin tool. I think it's more a matter of the right tool for the right task - I prefer GUI tools for simple one-off tasks, and CLI tools when I need to automate that task or repeat it often.