[Cialug] Command Line Linux

[Jeff Chapin]

Emacs requires x?

One of these days, they will get around to including a text editor in
that monstrosity and then it will do everything.


Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> 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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