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    Download headless (lemmy.world)
    submitted 3 months ago by uranibaba@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] kolorafa@lemmy.world 81 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Old good factorio headless Penguin, it's like that for so long...

    Hello fellow Factorio players :)

    [–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

    Hello! I downloaded it again, time to finally send that 🚀

    [–] 0x2640@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 3 months ago

    i just checked and this is actually real thats amazing

    [–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 67 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    So no head?

    [–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 39 points 3 months ago

    Headless often means software that has no graphical interface, and can run in the background. These are usually server software, or something that can run as a server.

    The headless build of Factorio is just the multiplayer server, so you can't play with it, but you can run it so that you and your friends can connect and play on the same same file.
    The normal build can host the server too, afaik that too allows to be started with a CLI command, but the headless version is probably more efficient when you don't need the GUI.

    [–] poke@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Some of us got your joke, no worries

    [–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago

    Vine...forgotten...

    [–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    You say some software is "headless" if you can launch it, log-off your computer and it keeps running.

    I imagine it's a link suitable to use with c-url, but I never even noticed it's there.

    [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Nope, it's their server software. This is a screenshot from the Factorio webpage, which is a video game. So, the normal Linux download is the playable game and you grab the headless download, if you want to host a multiplayer server.

    Your definition of "headless" is also somewhat wonky. It mostly means that it can function without a GUI, e.g. in the case of a server it does I/O via network ports and logs out any events that happen.
    This does often mean that you can log off (which in particular closes the GUI session), and it continues running. But if you launch a headless program underneath your particular user, with which you're then going to log off, then it will close regardless (and not just because your GUI terminal emulator closes).
    Of course, most headless programs will have a SystemD service associated and ideally run under an isolated user anyways, so that will prevent them from being stopped when you log off.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_software

    [–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

    Oh, the headless version of the game makes much more sense than a headless link.

    But if you launch a headless program underneath your particular user, with which you’re then going to log off, then it will close regardless

    Nohup is your friend.

    [–] Midnight1938@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    How does it run?

    [–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

    I either run it as a service (systemd, cron) or launch a session that is not logged out (tmux).

    [–] tkk13909@sopuli.xyz 51 points 3 months ago

    That's actually super clever lol. How has this not been done to death already?

    [–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    The factory must grow

    [–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    The factory must grow

    [–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

    The factory must grow

    [–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Hello, fellow Factorio enjoyer!

    [–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

    👋

    [–] IDew@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

    That is hilarious. I've never spotted that before lol

    [–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

    I'd recognize those buttons anywhere

    [–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 months ago

    I love this 💀

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

    Mindustry

    I'll let myself out

    [–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

    One game at the time please, I barely have time to get green science going!