how to boot without X
Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN
Delbert.Hudson at LOSANGELES.AF.MIL
Wed Oct 6 22:17:03 UTC 2004
matt,
i dont dis-agree that the gui is hear to stay in some form or
fashion but i cant tell you how many times
its saved my bacon.
this is not a flame but text runlevels are not a holdover from linux
but from even older unix which i really don't
think was or is a problem.
look, we all dont use our desktops for the same reason.....even on
windoze, sun, sgi the cmd line is always useful
and is usually a LOT more responsive to commands the a gui.
because ubuntu is so easy to install the idea of using as a firewall
or netsec platform appeals to me and i
would like to kill X at will on such a box but use it when needed.
even winsucks recognizes the need for text entry.
versatility and flexibility are the life blood of linux.
i think a compromise would still usefull....
besides a gui is a lot more code heavy then a cmd line and netsec
101 states that the smaller the code logically
the less chance of insects or unwelcome visitors.
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-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Matt
Zimmerman
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 3:09 PM
To: Ubuntu Users
Subject: Re: how to boot without X
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:58:54AM +0800, John wrote:
> There are other reasons to not run a display-manager at boot. Some like
> a GUI on their servers, but that's not to say they want to start a
> display manager on boot. Most of my servers are headless, but a GUI
> login is possible using VNC.
Servers should use a custom install, not the desktop install, and so they
won't have a display manager installed by default (or indeed, even an X
server).
On a desktop, the display manager should always start except (optionally) in
a recovery situation.
Servers have no need for a display manager in the first place, but if you
install one, it should start by default.
The concept of a "text-only" runlevel is a holdover from early days of Linux
when the graphical environment was often too heavy for commodity hardware,
and the user community had a much more traditional UNIX flavor, and so many
users preferred to work from a command line on the text console unless they
needed to use something exotic like a web browser.
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- mdz
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