On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 23:18 +0100, Liloulinx wrote: > Hi > I want to know if when we upgrade the desktop (client) version of some > distribution (like fedora) to its server version is equivalent to install > directly this server version? There really isn't a difference between desktop and server in Fedora. It rather depends on what you install. > My question relates mainly these 2 points: 1) Security, 2) The capacity of > the machine to answer several web requests. If you don't install the desktop stuff (X, Gnome, KDE, etc.) and install the various server components, then you've got a server instead of a desktop. You could install everything, of course. If you change the initdefault line in /etc/inittab from: id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: then the system will boot up to command line mode (NOT GUI mode) and it'll behave like 90% of the servers out there, but you have the ability to go to full GUI mode when you want by doing: telinit 5 as the root user. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When all else fails, try reading the instructions. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
