The best Server

[Neil Cherry]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>   
>>>     The basic conversion takes place in a terminal window. There type $ 
>>> sudo init 1 and when you give your password the computer drops to a 
>>> Server mode.
>>>     
>> Nonsense. (tel)init 1 brings the system down into single user mode, not
>> "server mode" (whatever that is supposed to be). This is definitely not
>> a way to run a server.
>>
>> If you don't want X running - stop it.
>>
>> If you want a server - use an Ubuntu server distribution. Which, by
>> default, installs a different set of applications than the desktop
>> version does. Among them a kernel which is configured slightly different
>> than the -generic kernel the desktop version installs by default.
>>   
>     That is not the case. The kernel with a number that comes with the 
> server is identical to the one used by the desktop. The difference is 
> the number of things used by the kernel. In a server you may have less 
> called. But you can do this with the desktop if you find it helps.

??? - Karl you seem to be unaware that init 1 is single user mode.
It is not a 'server' mode. In Linux the difference between a server
and a desktop is a matter of tuning. The same applications can be
run on both. Right now my home automation server is running at
init 3 (no X) but it was running init 5 (X) for a number of years.
I still use that machine for development, but X is not running
directly on it. Instead I simply start an Xterm running on the
server and export the display to my laptop. I can start up the
server by simply typing init 5.

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