Subj : Re: Slimmed down Debian
To   : KY MOFFET
From : Mike Powell
Date : Fri Aug 30 2019 10:31:00

> It has enough horsepower (dual Xeon, 64GB RAM) that having the GUI ready
> to hand is probably better than not, in case one day it declines to be
> spoken to via remote. And if it ends up with some linux installed,
> commandline mode is just too opaque for me.

LOL in that case you do not have the same reason I do for not wanting a
GUI.  :)

> What webmin do you use? That was Novell's big claim to fame after they
> stupidly dumped Netware for SuSE, making themselves no longer unique in
> the market... web admin was the one thing they did WAY better than
> anyone else. Of course that was 15 years ago!

www.webmin.com

I have used it for several years and like it.  They have some screenshots
on the web site so you can check it out some before installing it.

> > up to allow one other machine on my network (that does have GUI) to be able
> > to access it via a web browser.  It allows me to configure various things,
> > including making changes to the nsf file server.

> nsf file server??

typo - nfs - network file system.  It allows me to share a path on one
machine (the server) with several other systems on the network.  You
probably knew that but didn't recognize it due to my fat fingers.  :)

> See, there's why it'll probably get some all-in-one server OS, not a
> piecemeal setup!

Well, nfs is pretty much installed by default if you choose a "server
install" on a linux distro.  Or, at least it is with debian and several of
its derivatives (sp?).  As to whether or not you need an all-in-one depends
on what you might want to serve up with it.

Mike

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