I hate OS wars, but I find this statement extremely odd. I run a RH 7.2 server on the Internet, and it's 50 miles away. It doesn't have a keyboard, mouse or monitor, and X and its pieces aren't even installed. It's been sitting there running for about two years now, and I haven't had one single problem doing things "from the console", nor have I had a problem with updates, even kernel patches. I just reboot the box and log back in a minute later, after it's rebooted.
RH is, oh wait - was linux's version of windows, a pain in the a$$. People who started off on RH usually never learned anything and are stuck with the same problems as windows has except for less crashing.
Modifying things is a pain because there are 50 millions different places that RH keeps the data and you can't do anything from the console so you get stuck using the GUI they provide.
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu
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