On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 00:57 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Mon, 17.12.07 16:34, Patrice Dumas (pertusus(a)free.fr) wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:24:04AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> >
> > The virtual consoles will still be around, but really should only be an
> > emergency fallback. The right way to do this is to log in via gdm, and
> > select a session that gives you a fullscreen shell (with tabs, windows,
> > virtual desktops) etc.
>
> A display manager should not need to be installed. On servers, for
> example http servers you want an http server to be installed and that's
> all. No X server, not even X libraries (if possible).
Hmm? If you want no X, then you certainly also don't want any PA. I
mean, last time I was in a server room I didn't see a single server
with boxes attached... ;-)
Would you believe I still know people who only use linux via consoles?
Most of the stuff she does is using emacs. The rest are from bash. Even
I remember the time when that's all I'd needed and "mpg123 file.mp3"
was
all I needed to play music. ;)
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Richi