[Gllug] Oracle on Linux

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On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Ian Northeast said:
> This thing requires an X server. Not because it needs to actually
> display any picture on any screen. It does not do this. What it really
> needs is a font server. But any attempt to run it in an environment
> where $DISPLAY cannot be opened will fail.
> 
> VNC came to the rescue. There's no need to connect any client to the
> VNC server, its presence is sufficient to satisfy the beast. So we
> have several machines running X servers upon which no man's or woman's
> gaze has ever rested.

You probably want Xvfb, actually. It's designed for this sort of thing.

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