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CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook
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CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook

by Jonathan Hobson
April 2013
Beginner
374 pages
8h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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Adding the GNOME desktop environment, changing the runlevel, and installing additional software

In this recipe we will learn how to simplify access to your server by providing you with the option to add the GNOME desktop, change the runlevel in order that the desktop can be seen on boot, and enhance your system with an array of additional software packages typically associated with such an environment.

Adding a desktop environment is not a requirement of running a server and in many respects you can consider this action to be entirely optional. Members of the server community at large may frown with regard to the relevance of this feature, and if you are intending to run a standalone web server or mail server, then there is no reason for needing ...

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