I can't very well speak as a "heavy iron" type server administrator but as an "end user peon", so to speak, I have found that GUIs add convenience, and in many cases "point and click" is faster and more convenient than doing everything on a command line. Doubly so if due to a caffeine shortage I'm a bit of a sloppy typist. My two cents.
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Ryan Dwyer <ryandwy...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, I take back that statement to some degree. > I just can't picture a small or medium sized business installing any CLI > operating system when all they want is a basic domain or file server. I get > the impression that Server Core is only used by large businesses with their > own dedicated IT team. > > -Ryan > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Thierry Carrez <thierry.car...@ubuntu.com > > wrote: > >> Ryan Dwyer wrote: >> > The vast majority of system administrators are Windows admins. Windows >> > admins won't use anything without a GUI, so making it CLI only would be >> > shooting yourself in the foot. >> >> So Windows admins won't use Windows Server 2008 "Server Core" [1] ? >> >> Note the interesting quote from Andrew Mason: >> >> Andrew Mason, a program manager on the Windows Server team, noted that a >> primary motivation for producing a Server Core variant of Windows Server >> 2008 was to reduce the attack surface of the operating system, and that >> about 70% of the security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows from the >> prior five years would not have affected Server Core. >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2008#Server_Core >> >> -- >> Thierry Carrez >> Ubuntu server team >> > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > >
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