Juan J. MartÃnez used to talk here about Open Source and Other Things.
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Great news!
If you don’t know NX, just think in VNC (or RDP) but fast, secure and network efficient.
I’ve worked with NX and it’s really awesome, but I must admit that playing with FreeNX it’s PITA, and the official NX server from NoMachine isn’t 100% free software.
The blog says there are some glitches to fix, but I hope this changes the situation for remote GUI the same way OpenSSH did it for remote CLI.
I know I’m an old-school system administrator, who doesn’t want a X session running on his servers.
The Console and the CLI are the ultimate tool for a sysadmin (In the Begining was the Command Line), and I don’t like the extra stuff, specifically when you have to update the system: desktop applications have frecuently security updates, as other applications, but I’m not using them in a server so I feel it’s a waste of time and bandwith.
I tend to say base system as synonymous for bare minium install, and yesterday I had a little problem with a partner and a CentOS install.
We requested just base and the IT guy did a default install, that includes all the Gnome desktop and associated applications. That’s not a big deal, but it’s not the optimal situation.
What do you think? Are you OK with a desktop installed in a server?
This page describes the topics that are important for systems administrators to know as well as links to where information can be found about these topics.
This is an interesting list of topics if you want to learn what’s important/relevant for a Ubuntu system administrator. Most of the topics apply to other Linux distributions too.
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The Ubuntu Server already includes a Window Manager? by Dustin Kirkland.
Don’t get me wrong: I understand that some people is happy with a GUI on the server (it helps the average Windows administrator to use Linux), but I don’t need it.
And please: don’t waste my resources on my server with a X-Window session running, thanks you (in fact I like to deploy CentOS with a ‘command line only interface’ interface).
