[Bio-Linux] Biolinux8 - Is there an installation for "server mode"? (without X11, just x2go connection)

[Tony Travis]

On 05/02/15 07:23, Xavier Martínez Serrano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are  a research group working in metagenomics, and we would like to
> install Biolinux8 in a server recently acquired in "server mode", i.e.
> whithout  X11 enabled, we just need a ssh connection and might be in
> some case an x2go connection.
>
> Is there an option to install Biolinux8 in such mode, revising the
> documentation online we could not see it.

Hi, Xavi.

We run Bio-Linux 8 on servers using Tim's default installation without
any issues. If you want to use Bio-Linux as an "x2go" terminal server,
you will need X11 and the MATE desktop installed anyway. The only real
problem is you have to add the network configuration manually to prevent
network manager from configuring the NIC's dynamically. You can use
"network manager" to statically configure NIC's, but it is intended to
be used to configure NIC's dynamically on laptops or workstations.

HTH,

  Tony.

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