rfc/headsup: graphics driver packaging in F16+

Brian Wheeler bdwheele at indiana.edu
Tue Apr 12 20:12:35 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 13:19 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at pobox.com> said:
> > Data centers have /plenty/ of ancient video solutions out there, and 
> > basic video support is needed.
> 
> How many data centers run X on servers?  I know I don't; they all boot
> runlevel 3 and just have a serial console (KVM switches are for Windows
> machines).

I run in runlevel 3 so its not turned on, but I do have X installed and
I'll start it in the datacenter (on a non-broken machine!) when I'm
looking up docs, remoting my workstation to browse my email, etc.

So it might not be running daily, but its there. 

Brian



> -- 
> Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.




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