[nzlug] How to switch from desktop mode to server mode?

[Robin Sheat]

On Tuesday 01 August 2006 13:23, Sid Bachtiar wrote:
> Hey, that's the easiest way, but does it mean I'm saving resources by
> doing CTRL-ALT-F1? or it still means the desktop still chewing
> resources on the background?
The GUI is still running when you do that. It won't chew many resources being 
unused ('top' will tell you what's using the CPU), and after a while most of 
it will end up swapped out. But it is still there, using some resources.

> That's what I'm trying to find out, how do you run it as a server
> mode? I'm stuck with desktop mode at the moment.
There is no real server mode. What's meant by running as a server in Linux is 
basically 'no GUI, minimal things running'. Desktop mode is just a GUI and 
more user-oriented programs running. Simply using /etc/init.d/gdm stop will 
get you pretty close to what a server install has, regards what's running 
(obviously all the extra stuff is still installed on the disk)

It's quite OK (although it may make your machine bog down a bit) to run a 
desktop on a machine that is being a server. You wouldn't do this for 
a 'real' server, but it's good for experimenting.

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