On my production systems I don't install X or Gnome. However, due to the magic of X11 forwarding (ssh -Y) I have a working firefox on a few boxen. These days yum has gotten close enough to emulating the debian dependency resolution that the frustration of dependency chases is nearly gone. From the installation I unchecked X, Gnome and left checked the Admin Tools. That gave me about what I expect you are looking for. Pat On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 16:52 +0200, Kenneth Holter wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > > redhat-list mailing list > > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
