[Gllug] Light weight GUI for Linux

[Ryan Cartwright]

2009/6/23 John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk>:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:17:39 +0530, Hakuna Matata
> <narender.hooda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Thanks Chris,
>>
>> Both GNOME and KDE is able to run eclipse but i want a light weight GUI
> for
>> my server which can also be able to run eclipse.
>
> The question arises of why you want to run a GUI - and indeed your
> development environment - on the server at all, unless it's a
> terminal-server kind of server?  Far better to let the server be just that
> and use a separate development machine to do your actual development.  If
> you're running memory-hungry development tools on a server which is already
> RAM-challenged then you're inevitably going to compromise its performance
> as a server.
>

That's just what I was thinking. There's a reasonable divide on
whether a GUI is necessary for a server (I fall into the "no" camp)
but if the server is running services for which performance is a must
then perhaps you shouldn't be developing on it at all? A separate
development machine is possibly more appropriate. If the server is to
be used for testing the product by multiple users then you can always
run SVN or similar on the server and keep the code updated that way.

cheers
-- 
Ryan Cartwright
Equitas IT Solutions
http://www.equitasit.co.uk
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