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.<div>
<br></div><div><div>My two cents.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Ryan Dwyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryandwyer1@gmail.com">ryandwyer1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">OK, I take back that statement to some degree.<div><br></div><div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Ryan</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Thierry Carrez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thierry.carrez@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">thierry.carrez@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Ryan Dwyer wrote:<br>
> The vast majority of system administrators are Windows admins. Windows<br>
> admins won't use anything without a GUI, so making it CLI only would be<br>
> shooting yourself in the foot.<br>
<br>
</div>So Windows admins won't use Windows Server 2008 "Server Core" [1] ?<br>
<br>
Note the interesting quote from Andrew Mason:<br>
<br>
Andrew Mason, a program manager on the Windows Server team, noted that a<br>
primary motivation for producing a Server Core variant of Windows Server<br>
2008 was to reduce the attack surface of the operating system, and that<br>
about 70% of the security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows from the<br>
prior five years would not have affected Server Core.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2008#Server_Core" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2008#Server_Core</a><br>
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Ubuntu server team<br>
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