Pat Farrell wrote: > Peter wrote: > >>> Thanks, I will be switching from Vista to Ubuntu and dedicate the >>> machine for squeezecenter. I have seen it on a friends laptop and I >>> must admit it is impressive. Furthermore I will be able to remote >>> access from my Mac with the built in VNC in Leopard. I hope it will >>> resolve my issue #1 which is stability. >>> >> Pity you'll be running a whole GUI when all you want to do is run one >> server. You shouldn't really run X it just takes up memory and CPU. >> Access to Unix is best accomplisehd with stuff like ssh. >> > > I don't agree that is uses up a significant amount of memory. >
It uses a lot more than bash. And bash doesn't even run when you're not using it ;) > But regardless, you can alway just change your inittab to boot into 3 > and it boots without X-windows. Then all you are "wasting" is a few > hundred MB of disk storage. > Obviously, but the OP was going to use VNC to manage his server, which AFAIK implies X. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
