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


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