On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:45:20PM +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
What I would like to see in Fedora 7 is a 2 DVD set that has *everything*. Almost all ISPs that I can opt for here have ridiculously low caps on download limits. So, unless I use my office network (which is okay for my laptop, but not for my desktop), I can't do any heavy duty yum'ing.
Better than that, you'll be able to make an N DVD or CD set containing whatever you want. And you could include all the security updates, so you won't have to yum those.
Not necessarily. AFAIK, Oracle installation has to be done thru GUI. So whenever I am building a box for a database server I have to put in a minimal gnome desktop. My DBA even wanted to have a remote GUI terminal (he heard of XDMCP from somewhere). I literally had to put a gun to his head and make him do all his work via putty.
Put that gun away! Your DBA is totally right. Remote GUI is *exactly* the way to handle this. You have a much more secure server automatically protected from X server security flaws (setuid, runs as root, crazy memory access required = it's gonna happen again), and yet you as an admin have the full GUI at your disposal.
Using XDMCP is an outdate approach, of course -- instead, tunnel X over ssh. You can even do this with Putty and a free X server for Windows, if necessary.