On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:23 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
'Desktop' is in contrast to 'server'. On a server, you only reboot to load a new kernel and you never use the console display, rarely change
Oh, I dunno - it's not infrequently that I have to plug in a monitor-on-a-stick....
You only need that for installs or if you've done something wrong. And then it isn't really a 'display'/GUI as much as a text based tty emulator.
the drive layout or use removable storage, and almost never change the network connections - and you expect the same programs to run for years. On a desktop, the display is the first priority, ownership of certain devices is expected to magically shift to the user at the console, developers will give up consistent device naming for boot speed, and nobody cares if last year's programs still run with this year's OS.
I don't agree with that. Some people do want to keep running what they know, and if the budget's tight....
Then you probably don't run Fedora - the 'desktop' oriented distribution, or care much for the non-backwards compatible changes that went from there to RHEL.