On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 23:48 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/13/07 20:52, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Tarek Soliman wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > > to gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > >>> Now as far as video, who cares about that... servers don't need GUI > >>> stuff. > >>> > >> Tell that to our admins who run redhat and suse. Want to disable these > >> guys? Remove some X libraries. (The one guy who uses CLI uses telnet) > >> > >> Yes they really have X on ALL of the servers. > > > > What moron at that company did they talk to to get their jobs, are they on > > good terms with said moron, and do they cover medical/dental and transit > > fare? > > Larry Ellison. > > If you want to install Oracle on Linux (and *lots* of companies do, > so don't bleat about not infecting your system with closed-source), > you need X.
No, you only need a few libraries. The Display can be a local workstation. I know this, I've done it, as far back as 1998 when the universal installer finally became somewhat *un-buggy* enough to be used. Of course, this was on AIX, Tru64 and HP-UX mostly, but also Linux on the Dev and QA systems. The only REAL problems I ran into ~2001 was when the Pentium 4 was not recognized by the Java included on the installation CDs. The only X stuff was some runtime libraries needed. Very little compared to a full setup. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]