[Cialug] Command Line Linux

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

For me, installing libX11 is usually sufficient on servers. That way i 
can run X apps remotely (typically tunneled through SSH) without having 
to configure a local X server. I like being able to do something like 
"emacs /some/file &" and still have a prompt to do something else such 
as "/etc/init.d/some_daemon reload". Of course there are other ways to 
do the same thing without X11, such as do the editing with vim and 
ctrl-z back to a prompt as needed.

On 2009-05-12 at 14:11:01, David Champion wrote:
>Even if you do install the GUI, it's not that big. I installed Kubuntu
>9.04, it takes up a whole 3.5gb for everything, including KDE,
> Firefox, Tbird, Quanta, the LAMP stack, and a few other goodies. You
> can change it to CLI mode by changing the runlevel... or there's
> probably an Ubuntu way to make that happen too.
>
>Personally I usually leave a GUI installed even if I rarely run it on
>servers, it sometimes comes in handy.
>
>-dc
>
>Mathew R. Phillips wrote:
>> I just had a general question. I use ubuntu and I'm interested in
>> installing the server edition on an older computer to learn the ins
>> and outs of linux servers but I don't want to install it with a
>> gui... and I can't seem to find out if it does that by default or if
>> there is something I need to specify during install. Any
>> hints/resources that could help me? I'm also up for installing
>> another CLI linux distro if that would be more practical than
>> ubuntu.

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