[Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

[Anna]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:31 PM, David Leeming <david at leeming-consulting.com
> wrote:

>
> I have never tried selecting the Gnome option, but a nice GUI would be
> useful for users with limited grasp of command line stuff for file
> management. Maybe that is available already
>
>
> David Leeming
> Solomon Islands Rural Link
>
>

Managing a system with Gnome sounds seductive, but I can't think of a faster
way to bork up a server than to let a novice admin loose in GUI tools with
root powers.

For file management, say a user level directory under /var/www/html, far
better to mount it with sshfs from a remote system (there's even a Windows
tool for that called dokan).  That way you can have the ease of a GUI
filesystem tool without the risks of actually running a Window Manager on
the server itself.  Not to mention installing Gnome and X Windows and all
the deps takes a ton of space.

Anna Schoolfield
Birmingham
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