Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux without Gnome?

mark m.roth2006 at rcn.com
Fri May 16 12:41:26 UTC 2008


Kenneth Holter wrote:
> 
> We're about to install some RHEL 5.1 servers, and are discussing whether to
> exclude Gnome or not. The applications that are to be hosted on the servers
> are java-based, and we were thinking we might simply install X libraries and
> firefox as these are the only (known) requirements for the applications to
> run.
>smo[>
> I guess if the systems were not RHEL based, but, say Debian, it would be
> much easier to exclude Gnome, as RHEL seems to be tightly integrated with
> Gnome.

?

RH's has always done KDE as a default, as far as I remember. Also, you *need* a
window manager with X. Trust me, you do not want to run X without one.

	mark




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