I personally would never install a GUI o/s. By doing so you always open yourself up to more security concerns.. Packages / ports / etc.
Course one might argue - "it's behind a firewall".. In my professional experience with running numerous ISP and VoITSPs the rule has always been install the minimum needed software to accomplish the goal. From: asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-boun...@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of linux guy Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 2:21 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Asterisk server: Console or GUI OS ? Init level 3 or init level 5 ? I'm about to start building my asterisk server and I can't seem to find anything that discusses the pros and cons of installing the OS (Fedora 15) as console only or GUI, ie install KDE as well. So, other than a bit of disk space, is there any reason why I shouldn't install KDE when I set it up ? Is there any great disadvantage to running the server in init level 5 (ie KDE, xorg, etc) running in the background, but not being logged in, versus init level 3 ? (Or whatever they call these things these days..., ie F15 uses systemd...) FWIW, my server hardware will sit on a server rack in the utility room. I might drag a display and keyboard down there once in a while to troubleshoot and/or do maintenance, but mostly I'd ssh in and probably use a remote desktop app to work on it. FWIW, I'm OK doing things via the CLI, but sometimes its really nice to have graphical tools. I look forward to your input. Thanks
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