[olug] headless PC operation

[Andrew Holm-Hansen]

Does that save a significant amount of memory?  I've never heard of that
as an optimization technique. 

I'm all for anything that increases my bogomips...

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 12:40, Sean Edwards wrote:
> It is pretty cool and not that hard.  One way is to
> edit /etc/inittab to not spawn any tty* (local
> terminals accessible via CTRL+F*), and only spawn
> terminal sessions to active serial ports.  Here is an
> example of an inittab entry from the "TEXT TERMINAL
> HOWTO":
> 
> S1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L 19200 ttyS1 vt102
> 
> To save on memory and increase performance when
> running Linux as a desktop (X, GNOME, BlackBox, etc.),
> I usually edit the inittab to spawn only 2 or 3 local
> terminals.
> 
> -=Sean Edwards=-
> cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
> 
> 
> --- "Matthew G. Marsh" <mgm at midwestlinux.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, neal rauhauser wrote:
> > 
> > > http://www.realweasel.com/
> > 
> > Cool. Now that is a groovin' gadget. I run buttloads
> > o'servers headless
> > but they are spanko about the BIOS (except the intel
> > and ibm rack mount
> > systems). Heh - curious if anyone with those name
> > brand racks (Dell etc)
> > knows if they can do true headless in the BIOS. I
> > know my intel
> > clone'o'rack bios does. And the ibm racks seem to
> > (at least the few I have
> > played with).
> > 
> > >   This site is mentioned in the Absolute OpenBSD
> > book - if you've got
> > > $250, you can make a machine headless/serial. I
> > can think of a few
> > > immediate uses for this one ...
> > >
> > > --
> > > mailto:neal at lists.rauhauser.net
> > > phone:402-301-9555
> > > "After all that I've been through, you're the only
> > one who matters,
> > > you never left me in the dark here on my own" -
> > Widespread Panic
> > 
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