From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 6 18:19:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B03E16A4D5 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:19:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A4C43D48 for ; Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:19:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bt9Jp-0004O9-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:19:53 +0200 Received: from 208-186-54-187.nrp3feld.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([208.186.54.187]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:19:53 +0200 Received: from missive by 208-186-54-187.nrp3feld.roc.ny.frontiernet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Aug 2004 20:19:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Lee Harr Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 18:19:51 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: <410E2063.6080205@cordula.ws> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 208-186-54-187.nrp3feld.roc.ny.frontiernet.net User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (FreeBSD) Sender: news Subject: Re: Headless Install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: missive@hotmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 18:19:56 -0000 On 2004-08-03, Maksym Marchenko wrote: > And what you can do with "headless" PC? Can you control this PC only in > command prompt? Or (may be) you can use anything like X - twm? > Sure. You would use the headless machine to run X clients. I have a headless PC that serves X sessions for a dozen thin terminals. The server actually has video if I need to access the console (I do not have a serial console set up) but I almost never have a monitor or keyboard attached to the system.