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Will be OK to have only clients working without GUI? I have just finished client mode and it should work now without graphical environment. Now I only need to do packages and do some testing to deploy it. With server will be more complicated to do changes in the program. That's why I'm asking.

I have just published new version of Mandelbulber. It has possible to run NetRender client without graphics environment (via terminal, ssh session). However to run it must be installed libgtk because it's the same program as for running under X.
To establish connection first you have to start all clients, then enable the server and click "scan". It should find automatically all clients and show number of them (clients will also confirm connection). After this disable "scan" function. Finally it's ready for rendering.

Example of command line:
mandelbulber -nogui -ip 192.168.0.2 -port 5555 -lowmem
   where:
-ip - IP addres of server
-port - network port of server (default is 5555)
-nogui - starts application without GUI
-lowmem (recomended) - disables functions which consume memory - it reduces memory usage dramatically in noGUI mode and there is no difference in rendering

When clients are run in -lowmem mode, server MUST be also started with -lowmem parameter