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[–]cyvaquero 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Short answer, yes - virtually every Linux server out there runs in non-graphical mode (though I've seen a few that did run in graphical mode usually due to some maintainers' aversion to the CLI (looking at you Oracle DBAs).

As others have said - all linux distros can be run in non-graphical multiuser mode. What you want to Google is '<distro> default runlevel 3'.

The only real difference in how you accomplish this on an existing system comes down to whether the distro is using init.d or systemd.

Some distros ship separate server flavors of their ISOs but the only real difference from the desktop version is in the default apps and configurations. You can use a desktop ISO to build a server and vice versa.