I am a bit confused, I routinely install Red Hat without X or "X"
capabilities and it is quite easily maintained and managed. In fact I
only have X installed on my personal work stations, not at all on my
servers or on the embedded devices I work with (with the exception of
the embedded devices that are supposed to have a GUI).

Can you explain further, how did you arrive at the conclusion that they
require X in order to manage them?

Cheers,

Davidm


On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 13:01, Eric Lee Green wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 January 2003 08:37 pm, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > I'm just curious.  What is your hostility towards RH/MK/Suse? 
> 
> Not hostility, just fact. They require "X" to be installed in order to manage 
> them (with the possible exception of SuSE, I haven't tried SuSE in a while). 
> If you're trying to install a very small embedded system without "X", it 
> takes a lot of work to strip Red Hat down to do that (I haven't tried it with 
> any of the others). Debian, on the other hand, is quite installable and 
> maintainable without "X" or "X" capabilities. Same with Slackware. 
> 
> This doesn't make Red Hat or Mandrake bad, of course (I'm typing this at a 
> Mandrake system, and work with Red Hat daily). Just not ideal for all 
> situations. 
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