On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 00:57 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Mon, 17.12.07 16:34, Patrice Dumas (pertusus@xxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:24:04AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > > > > > > The virtual consoles will still be around, but really should only be an > > > emergency fallback. The right way to do this is to log in via gdm, and > > > select a session that gives you a fullscreen shell (with tabs, windows, > > > virtual desktops) etc. > > > > A display manager should not need to be installed. On servers, for > > example http servers you want an http server to be installed and that's > > all. No X server, not even X libraries (if possible). > > Hmm? If you want no X, then you certainly also don't want any PA. I > mean, last time I was in a server room I didn't see a single server > with boxes attached... ;-) Would you believe I still know people who only use linux via consoles? Most of the stuff she does is using emacs. The rest are from bash. Even I remember the time when that's all I'd needed and "mpg123 file.mp3" was all I needed to play music. ;) -- Richi -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
