Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 06, 2004 12:12 AM
It's not even close.
I think what the Linux ``purists'' are worried about is that access to the command line might disappear or that you won't be able to run the system without X. I'm not sure how the former could ever happen. The latter is becoming a bit of a problem with some distributions. (The long time ability to run Linux on low memory systems for tasks like firewalling or file/print services is getting harder to do. Or at least harder to figure out how to do as some tools don't document what files the GUI interface is modifying behind the scenes.)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 06, 2004 12:12 AMIt's not even close.
I think what the Linux ``purists'' are worried about is that access to the command line might disappear or that you won't be able to run the system without X. I'm not sure how the former could ever happen. The latter is becoming a bit of a problem with some distributions. (The long time ability to run Linux on low memory systems for tasks like firewalling or file/print services is getting harder to do. Or at least harder to figure out how to do as some tools don't document what files the GUI interface is modifying behind the scenes.)
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