Headless Fedora?

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Thu Jun 28 18:06:44 UTC 2007


On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Montana Quiring wrote:

> I think it can mean both: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless
> ...and I kind of mean it both ways, as I don't want a GUI grabbing CPU
> cycles and I don't want to attach a mouse/kbd/monitor to it.

Interesting.  I hadn't encountered "headless" as a software term.
As another pointed out, if you don't have a monitor,
the X server won't run.
The X client stuff could still be used.

> On 6/28/07, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Montana Quiring wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to setup a headless Fedora box (i.e. No X).
> >
> > I'd thought that "headless" meant no monitor.
> > Am I wrong about that?

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