[Fwd: Re: Musings on debian-user list]

Ron Johnson wrote:

> On 2009-07-29 19:04, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > Some of us run servers :-)
>
> And presumably you're experienced enough to run Mutt.  Give OP some 
> time...

Well, actually, I read mail on my Mac, with SeaMonkey, but that's 
another story.  I keep a copy of Alpine on the server for those times 
I'm on the road at locations that block IMAP (of course some of those 
tend to block ssh as well; I've taken to tethering through my Blackberry 
when on the road).

> > I've been running headless Debian servers for years, never used 
> > anything but a command line to manage them.
> >
> > I guess I could run X-Windows remotely, but never really saw a need 
> > to - ssh to a command prompt is just fine.
>
> You're right.  Keep it X-less.
>
> Unless you've got an Oracle database.  In which case you *must* 
> install X.   Grrrr.

Never did have to run Oracle.  At work, we run Oracle on customer 
servers, but my stuff has always been MySQL.

Cheers,

Miles

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In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra





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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra



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