I refuse to install X on servers. Unless there is a very compelling reason (read: application dependent), I don’t include any of the X components on a Linux install. After all, why would a headless server need a GUI? So when I had to install the X server packages on my Virtual Machines just to [...]
For those not familiar with it, VMware ESX is an enterprise-level virtualization solution packed with features, high-availability clusters chief among those. For those that do not require these extra features, VMware had made, freely available, VMware Server, which ran on a single instance on top of Windows or Linux. ESX, on the other hand, is [...]