Subj : Re: Slimmed down Debian
To   : Mike Powell
From : Ky Moffet
Date : Fri Aug 30 2019 22:21:00

MIKE POWELL wrote:
>> 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.  :)

Probably not. :D

>> 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

Oh, type the obvious :)

> 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.

<looks> Oh, that looks nice. Thanks! And its in the PCLOS repository.

Looks like it would come in Windows too, except about half the pieces 
are no longer available. :/

>> 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.

Haha, you're assuming I know what I want to serve up :)  I'm thinkin' 
mostly it ought to be a backup server, if I can figure out how to 
achieve it.
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