owner: X is a bad idea

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unocide

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Whenever linux breaks, after you get it up, it's either hardware or X doing something. that has been my experience.

any web server that i've set up, i've done everything from a prompt. i usually use redhat, turn off the extra default accounts and services, move Telnet to a different port (except on rapedangel.net) and i don't install an X stuff except the development files. that way, it'll never run anything X-related and won't break, unless the hard drive(s) or processor(s) die.

for my desktop, i do use X with the WindowMaker interface, you probably use the gnome thing (I like good ol' WindowMaker). Good luck keeping it up if you use the X interface.

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"If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
Such a funny quote, true or not.
-ediconu
 
I typically use SecureCRT and operate the server from the command line, the only time I use X is when I'm physically at the box and want to make rapid changes.

Of course, I don't have Linux operating on any of my other computers, so that's a factor as well...
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Please feel free to email me if you have any tips in combining Linux and Win9X on the same machine as each attempt I've tried to get working thus far has crashed and burned horribly...
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Kevin Jon Schlossberg
SysOp and Administrator for BladeForums.com

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"If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"
Such a funny quote, true or not.
-ediconu
 
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