Discussion of Fedora Server use-cases

[Colin Walters]

On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 18:11 +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote:

> A "desktop" is not necessary: What about (completely fictional) a
> terminal login prompt on one virtual console, a browser on another
> console, and on a third console a GUI combining immediate status
> display (CPU usage at 50%; your hard drive is failing! RAID out of
> sync!) with a login prompt to access a configuration GUI?  No window
> manager or desktop is necessary to get this.

Until you want non-latin input methods, a11y, etc...all that stuff
around the edges that isn't "window management" but is actually really
important.  It's quite interesting to look at the evolution of ChromeOS
in this aspect, and what they present in the "browser" versus what goes
in the "chrome".