On 27 November 2010 18:51, Ivan Vanderbyl <ivanvander...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mikel, > > I've been using Ubuntu Server as my deployment OS of choice for about 3 years > (before that CentOS), I find the community is very active and almost every > problem I've run into has been answered on a mailing list somewhere. > > I don't believe Ubuntu Server has a GUI, you might be confusing it with > Ubuntu Desktop.
You're correct. Ostensibly, the only real difference between Ubuntu Server & Ubuntu Desktop is the set of packages installed. If you 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop' on an Ubuntu Server installation, you'd effectively have the union of both - and it will all work quite happily as long as there's a video card installed :) > > Ivan > > On 27/11/2010, at 6:43 PM, Mikel Lindsaar wrote: > >> Hi RoRoers, >> >> Quick survey, what is your current deployment OS of choice and why? >> >> Reason I ask is there is a lot of movement recently, my current deployment >> OS of choice is CentOS, but it is getting a bit long in the tooth and >> sometimes has interesting yum problems on updating software, I can get >> anything I want installed of course using direct installs, but would like to >> get a bit of feedback from our community on what you are using these days. >> >> For some reason, I look at Ubuntu as just a desktop OS, I know this is >> irrational, but I have been seeing more and more ubuntu installs on screen >> casts and the like, are people using this because they find it easier? Are >> they (gasp) running the GUI on it in production? What is the attraction >> here? >> >> >> Mikel Lindsaar >> http://rubyx.com/ >> http://lindsaar.net/ >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
