Apple Rackmounts

[Jeffrey Skelton]

This seems to be the dichotomy of Frontier the "Web CMS, object database,
scripting, tools" and Frontier the "HTTP server" for Windows & Mac.  

I recently started running Frontier on a Win2K server. I access the headless
server with Windows Terminal Services. This is satisfactory.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian V Hughes [mailto:brianvh at Dartmouth.EDU] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 3:12 PM
> To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
> Subject: Re: Apple Rackmounts
> 
> 
> --You wrote:
> >That's a compelling reason to have a 'headless' version of Frontier
> >which runs as a daemon under a privileged user.
> 
> I would say yes and no to this. While I like the idea of being able 
> to run Frontier the same way I can run MySQL and PostgreSQL, it's not 
> really the same type of application. I find that there are all kinds 
> of times when I want/need to work in Frontier's interface. You can 
> proabably do 98% of that work via Timbuktu (which I'm not that 
> familiar with), but for an interface driven app, which Frontier still 
> is to a large extent, there's no substitute for working on the 
> console.
> 
> -Brian
>