[Gllug] A little OT: On the limits of VLANs

[Nix]

On 30 Apr 2010, tethys at gmail.com told this:

> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:20 AM, general_email at technicalbloke.com
> <general_email at technicalbloke.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to add a gnome desktop to an install of Ubuntu Server
>> without it dragging all the desktop cruft along too though?
>
> A gnome desktop *is* cruft. You don't really want a desktop at all
> on your server. If X is installed, I see that as a bug. Sadly, I
> seem to be in a minority there.

I don't see a bug about requiring X client libraries. Requiring a
running server, well, it depends on the application. Oracle's installers
certainly count as buggy (though the fault is really Java's for
requiring an X server to compute font metrics!)
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