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From: J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>
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It certainly seems that taking down a server
to do a reinstall is fairly catastrophic compared
to the mere possibility of running X11 -

MfG,

Jup

Daniel Egger wrote:

>Am Don, 2002-10-24 um 11.47 schrieb Henning P. Schmiedehausen:
>
>  
>
>>Sheesh, some even install a full desktop with "[gnome|kde]-games" on a
>>server. What is this? Microsoft Windows <insert your poison here>" ?
>>    
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>Don't laugh; I had such a box reinstalled from ground just the day
>before yesterday because I found a RedHat full Install on it. Not to
>mention that there're "admins" out there who use GNOME as root on a
>fairly busy mailserver <shudder>...
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