On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 4:31 PM, David Leeming <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@leeming-consulting.com">david@leeming-consulting.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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I have never tried selecting the Gnome option, but a nice GUI would be<br>
useful for users with limited grasp of command line stuff for file<br>
management. Maybe that is available already<br>
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David Leeming<br>
Solomon Islands Rural Link<br>
</font><div><div></div><br></div></blockquote><div><br><br>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.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>Anna Schoolfield<br>Birmingham <br></div></div>