To short? Remind me to drop this thread from my list >_>
While I personally feel a GUI on a server is dead weight, there are times when it makes sense to have one. A SOHO situation where the poor sap that actually knows how to power off a computer properly is in charge of the box but he/she doesn't eat, sleep, and eat servers for breakfast but still needs a decent file or print server for example.
One thing I like about FreeBSD, I can pop in the disk, go to custom install, grab the minimal needed file sets (i.e. base, kern, what ever I want), boot it, setup and turn it into what ever I want from there.
PS:
The desktop machine pressed into service as my file server runs OpenBSD, access is via SSH only.
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Last edited by TerryP; 28th May 2008 at 08:28 AM.
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