Re: Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux without Gnome?

Red Hat did use to come with KDE as default as far as I remeber too, but
according to
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s2-x-clients-desktop.html
GNOME
is now the default.

I agree that we need a window manager with X. I forgot to mention that in my
first post. So the idea is to install a simple window manager (i.e twm)
along with the required xlibs, as well as firefox.

Has anyone done this successfully? Is there any problems we should be aware
of?

By the way, we're going to kickstart install the servers, so any tips on the
package selection section of the kickstart file would be appreciated.



On 5/16/08, mark <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Kenneth Holter wrote:

We're about to install some RHEL 5.1 servers, and are discussing whether
to
exclude Gnome or not. The applications that are to be hosted on the
servers
are java-based, and we were thinking we might simply install X libraries
and
firefox as these are the only (known) requirements for the applications
to
run.
smo[>
I guess if the systems were not RHEL based, but, say Debian, it would be
much easier to exclude Gnome, as RHEL seems to be tightly integrated with
Gnome.

?

RH's has always done KDE as a default, as far as I remember. Also, you
*need* a
window manager with X. Trust me, you do not want to run X without one.

mark

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