On 8 April 2008 at 19:06, Mitchell Maltenfort wrote: | If your criterion is use of resources, then you might be more | interested in which flavor of Linux makes it easy to turn the X-window | server off. No windows or mouse, more RAM and CPU cycles for R. As I | recall, the only Linux where that might be a problem is Ubuntu, | because there's no convenient way to kill the X-server.
That conjecture is easily disproved by example: 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop' and finding the correct forms for kdm and xdm is left as an exercise for the reader. The /etc/init.d scripts have been working all those fourteen years I've been using Debian and Ubuntu .... Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
