On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:45:20PM +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote: > What I would like to see in Fedora 7 is a 2 DVD set that has > *everything*. Almost all ISPs that I can opt for here have ridiculously > low caps on download limits. So, unless I use my office network (which > is okay for my laptop, but not for my desktop), I can't do any heavy > duty yum'ing. Better than that, you'll be able to make an N DVD or CD set containing whatever you want. And you could include all the security updates, so you won't have to yum those. > Not necessarily. AFAIK, Oracle installation has to be done thru GUI. So > whenever I am building a box for a database server I have to put in a > minimal gnome desktop. My DBA even wanted to have a remote GUI terminal > (he heard of XDMCP from somewhere). I literally had to put a gun to his > head and make him do all his work via putty. Put that gun away! Your DBA is totally right. Remote GUI is *exactly* the way to handle this. You have a much more secure server automatically protected from X server security flaws (setuid, runs as root, crazy memory access required = it's gonna happen again), and yet you as an admin have the full GUI at your disposal. Using XDMCP is an outdate approach, of course -- instead, tunnel X over ssh. You can even do this with Putty and a free X server for Windows, if necessary. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
