[nos-bbs] How to run jnos in Ubuntu?

[Michael Fox - N6MEF]

LOL.

Well as for low power, I can tell you that our JNOS/Ubuntu 10.04 desktop
systems run on Atom 330 systems powered by 12v.  The sites have backup
generators.  But a couple of years ago, one site had a power outage during a
big snow and the transfer switch failed.  So ... no power.  And the snow was
so deep that no one could reach the site for days.  Our JNOS and radios
hummed along just fine for about 4 days until someone was able to finally
make it to the site to manually throw the transfer switch.  

We run JNOS in a screen session so we can attach and detach from the JNOS
console from anywhere - even plain old ssh.  ;-)  Normally, the desktop
session is shut down and the monitor is turned off.  For me, it's just nice
to be able to turn on the monitor and get to work if I'm up at the site(s).
But the monitor, keyboard and mouse do take up room for only occasional use.
(And here, in earthquake country, I have to strap the monitors down so they
doesn't topple over and smash something in the event of a little shimmy.)
So I understand why people may prefer not to have it.  

Michael


-----Original Message-----
From: nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org [mailto:nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf
Of George [ham] VerDuin
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 10:55 AM
To: nos-bbs at tapr.org
Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] How to run jnos in Ubuntu?

Hey Michael -- text -- shmext?
It's not only old farts with command line stuff.

On 11/19/2012 12:53 PM, Michael Fox - N6MEF wrote:
>
> Ah, well you experienced linux gurus may be able to get by with text, 
> but some of us need the GUI stuff! ;-)
>
OK -- so what is texty about thunderbird or Outlook Express as mail handlers
/ even attach pictures...?
Editors -- ssh & vi might be texty but nothing stopping gedit or kedit or
even windoz whatever.


> ... uptimes exceeding 6 months ...
>
> Lately, JNOS has been up and down a lot but that's only due to us 
> doing some testing, adding forwarding links, etc. Otherwise, no issues 
> with desktop version. Still on 10.04 LTS.
>
Probably the ONLY reason to choose a headless server is to permit the
desktop to be shut down for other reasons while jnos continues to guard the
RF. Isn't "play freely" the general approach to a high power desktop while
remote headless low power 24/7 is the reason you have a server in the first
place -- say for desktop backup to the remote HD? If your thought is that a
remote host requires that ol' black text screen with $ and # and ascii text,
then part of the fun in *nix is having your GUI cake and unplugging your
desktop too.


> Michael
>
> N6MEF
>
How many ways can the cat be skinned?
Skip

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