Re: ? four port NIC - Unknown if this is configured?

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.hardware, in article
<slrnfd756f.fm4.aznomad.2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, AZ Nomad wrote:

Moe Trin <ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If it's truly going to be a server, it doesn't want a "popular" distro
with lots of cycle-wasting eye-candy. The more sh!t you have running on
a server, the more things you have to secure because there are more things
to exploit. X does not belong on a server. Period.

Being unpopular doesn't make a distro use less resources. Probably quite
the opposite. Where did you get the insane notion that only popular
distro's have eye-candy

And where, precisely, did you think that I made that statement?

or that they can't be configured in a server role?

Virtually all can be so configured. Even stuff labeled as a "workstation"
release like the old Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation, usually has some
server daemons running, and adding a web server is trivial. But contrary
to popular opinion, it's not the best idea ever. Only the clueless (the
user "popular" distributions are aimed at) would assume it's OK to run an
Internet website from their workstation. What part of "The more sh!t you
have running on a server, the more things you have to secure because there
are more things to exploit" did you miss?

Old guy
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