Installation Question: Do I Need X-Windows? 1

[Quintios]

I have a server installation with Gnome. As far as I can tell, everything I'm ever going to do is either through a menu or through the command prompt (course, I'm a complete newbie with Linux so make your judgement here.)

When selecting the installation packages with Red Hat 7.3 there are two at the very top, "Classic X-Windows" and, crap, can't remember the exact name, but it's another newer implementation of X-Windows supplied by RH.

I'm going to install PHP, Apache, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin to make a little webserver to experiment with.

Do I need to bother with either of the X-Windows packages or can I just skip over them completely? Why would I select them versus Gnome or KDE? Is it just to save disk space?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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[ToeShot]

If you are going to be using it as a web server only then you don't need the X-windows system at all. If you are going to develop some web pages on your own then you will need the X-windows sytem to view those pages. as for which one to use, I believe the difference is the Xfree86 server if that is the case you need to check the Xfree86.org website and make sure that your card is supported.

Hope this helps

Dave
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[Quintios]

I assume the Gnome sort of sits on top of x-windows, correct? Meaning, if I do not select either of the x-windows packages but do select Gnome then the necessary files will be loaded. I mean, they're not going to let you select Gnome and then it won't work, right?

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[ToeShot]

That is correct RedHat will install the X-Windows system if you choose Gnome or KDE Desktop envirorments and will set it up. It will ask you to test your video card, I strongly recomend this if you have not Configured a XF86Config file before. The again RH comes with the Xconfigurator to configure your video card. but if you choose to boot up with a graphical interface and you have a bad video setting you won't even be able to log in and you will need a boot disk to boot your machine.

Dave
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Today Is Tomorrows Yesterday. So Why Wait

 

[Quintios]

Yup. Thanks!

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