Re: Linux server help

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Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:29:37 -0800

leebert wrote:

> David wrote:
>
>> Black Dragon wrote:
>>
>>> You'll also have a much better chance of hitting the ground running
>>> using using an OS such as FreeBSD which is written specifically for
>>> servers vs OS's that are trying to clone Windows like many of the
>>> Linux distributions are.
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>> Booo Hisssssssss
>
> He has a point. I'm trying to run a server, no GUI, no sound card, I'd
> use a CGA graphics were it still available.

Mandrake does quite well with no GUI. I have even run it headless (no
monitor) as a web server and SNMP network monitor.

>
> And on the matter of GUIs, the most recent Linux distros want to push
> KDE,

SO? They also give the option to install other desktops.

> a desktop I find heavy-handed and distracting (for starters). When
> I've tried to install FVWM2 (XFree86 flavor) and/or a base Xvnc, I've
> run into problems on recent distros I never had in 1999 or 2001.

Mandrake 10.0 and FVMW2 work just fine. I don't usually use it so it was not
installed. Since you claim "recent distros" have problems, I thought I
would install it. I opened a window and su-ed to root, typed "urpmi fvwm2"
and it installed automatically. A right mouse click on my KDE background
let me start a new Xsession and I logged right into a FVWM2 session, no
problems and no reboots. As for vnc, I have had no problems with that at
all, although I would rather use x forwarding though ssh.

>
> Professionally, I still prefer to use FVWM2 b/c it's lighter, faster, I
> can run 50 virtual displays that are both secure and constantly on
> (functionally stateless). OTOH, KDE is slow by comparison, I couldn't
> imagine running 50 virtual KDE displays on a PC w/ 256 MB RAM. And like
> Gnome, FVWM2 runs KDE apps and can run Gnome itself, along with WM and
> other windowing environments.

So run FVWM2 on Linux. There are NO problems in doing so. Ever think there
are REASONS why major film studios are choosing Linux rather than FreeBSD?
Ever think that there are REASONS why Linux in on 4 of the 5 world's
fastest computers and not FreeBSD. Yeah, I hear the BSDers brag about
FreeBSD, but when the rubber hits the road, it is most likely Linux that
gets installed.

>
> /leebert

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