See comments inline.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:21 PM, linux guy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linuxguy123@gmail.com">linuxguy123@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm about to start building my asterisk server and I can't seem to find anything that discusses the pros and cons of installing the OS (Fedora 15) as console only or GUI, ie install KDE as well.<br><br></blockquote>
<div><br>If you want an OS that is going to be supported a year from now, don't use Fedora.<br><br>Go for CentOS which is essentially Red Hat Enterprise, Fedora is pretty much beta RHEL. It's EOL is one year from my understanding.<br>
<br>You want to install the very minimum as most people would agree, why do you think you need a GUI.<br><br>Best practice is to only install the bare minimum on a server.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
So, other than a bit of disk space, is there any reason why I shouldn't install KDE when I set it up ?<br></blockquote><div><br>It has and will cause issues. I have installed KDE or whatever but booted to init 3 for a couple of machines. I could go to init 5 if I had to, but I never did had to. I don't see a single pro, but there are many cons.<br>
<br>What benefit do you get from KDE? Why do you want it. Is this just going to be an asterisk server or a desktop?<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Is there any great disadvantage to running the server in init level 5 (ie KDE, xorg, etc) running in the background, but not being logged in, versus init level 3 ? (Or whatever they call these things these days..., ie F15 uses systemd...)<br>
<br>FWIW, my server hardware will sit on a server rack in the utility room. I might drag a display and keyboard down there once in a while to troubleshoot and/or do maintenance, but mostly I'd ssh in and probably use a remote desktop app to work on it.
</blockquote><div><br>How does remote desktop help you over an SSH CLI?<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">FWIW, I'm OK doing things via the CLI, but sometimes its really nice to have graphical tools.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Ok, I can understand, I used to be like this for a while. I am a huge fan of Webmin for a GUI. It allows for almost everything and for me, it is better than KDE or anything else. It is just a webpage with tools attached. No big potential problem there.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I look forward to your input.<br><br>Thanks<br>
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