X on a Server?

[William Muriithi]

John,

Since you are already used to managing a server without X, I do not
see any reason why you would need it.

I can only think of 2 reasons where X would be required:

- some software require X as a prerequist. I am serious and if you
doubt, try installing oracle without X. This made my day though, not
only do they need X, they also need screen saver. I am still not sure
what the later is for.

- you do not have very strong CLI skills. You may be used to taking
ethernet up and down through gui tools

If that happen to be the case, I think installing it and then putting
the system at run level 3 is a good compromise.

On 21/12/2009, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 04:10:59PM +0000, john.moniz-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> I need to re-do my file and mail server for the house. I intend to install
>> Debian, as was on my old server that suffered a hardware death.
>>
>> Is there any need to install X on a server? Perhaps for some configuration
>> tools? My old server didn't have it, but if it's useful, I'll add it this
>> time.
>
> Not really.  I wouldn't.
>
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