As someone else mentioned, you *can* install the gui on Ubuntu Server - and there are some braindead apps that need it on occasion. Most recently, I discovered that Oracle 10 EE has two installation modes - a gui mode with reasonable defaults and prompting, and a headless mode that requires you to set up the entire installation via xml config files, without sensible defaults. bleah. However, for some reason the gui mode didn't work at all over a remote X session - the only way we got it going in the end was to install the Ubuntu desktop and NeatX for a gui.
(Our prod environments are all Solaris or RHEL 5.4 - bleah - but that's cause were all Enterprisey :) - Korny On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ivan Vanderbyl <[email protected]>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. > > 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 [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > > 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rails-oceania%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- Kornelis Sietsma korny at my surname dot com http://korny.info "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of" -- 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
