Spilled the Beans
I want to set up a headless machine to run a data-acquisition application. I may well use VNC to remote in to it. Does it need to be a server? What exactly is the difference between a client and a server install? I don't need any special software, just the jre and rxtx + usbserial for comms.
Andrew
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A desktop install gets the gnome desktop, a server install does not. Either will work for your purposes. If you need a graphical environment for VNC, the desktop is the way to go. Otherwise you could just access it with SSH.
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I second Blueridgedog, but I want to add that if you do install a desktop w/ VNC, I would recommend tunneling the VNC thru SSH. I would also recommend changing the default SSH port (higher than 1024) and using keypair files rather than passwords.
Spilled the Beans
That's very useful. Thanks to both of you.
Andrew
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Another vote for SSH, but I'd recommend using NX from nomachine.com if you want a GUI. They have a windows client too, in case that would be helpful.
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