On Tuesday 06 June 2006 20:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Fedora has neat way of conserving resources by changing from init 5 to > > init 3. > > Ubuntu (breezy) comes with default runlevel 2 with GUI. How to change > > this to CLI and stop most of the inessential services - I only need to > > have database and apache servers running? What would then be an option > > to change back to GUI when required? > > It depends on whether you want this to be the new default or to just do > it for the moment. If it's a one-off I'd incline to > > sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop > sudo /etc/init.d/bigassservice stop > > and repeat til happy.
This IS NOT what was asked! It may be that it is the only answer! After playing for a week, I think ubuntu is probably a good solution for someone needing a wife and 2.3 kids. IMHO it is not a good solution for people wanting to 'work' their computers. eg Q: I want to do advanced sound card making out A: Not many people have multiple sound cards ... eg this question James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
