This really gets my goat! Obviously I've misunderstood the objective of Ubuntu. I thought you were trying to make linux easier to use, and more accessible. I've tried the desktop version, and it certainly lives up to this promise.
What about older less powerful machines, such as the ones which posters here are using. You can run Ubuntu desktop on them, or use them as a "server" with an old version of Windows --- but for some reason you can't use it as an Ubuntu server ?!?! So what is the issue ? Is it really that the cut-down Ubuntu server software _requires_ a new top-end computer to run on; or that the developer in a moment of brain-freeze removed the wrong module, which provides support for older CPUs ? The same PC runs the desktop install; so it must be the latter. My experience trying to set up a basic LAMP and email server has soured me on Ubuntu. Being forced to learn the lunux command line is bad enough, but the Ubuntu server documentation is incomplete and out-of- date. And if I have to use a different distro for the server, then I should be consistent by swapping to its desktop as well. If you are so focussed on the Ubuntu desktop that you can't add the missing module back into the server - then stop diverting your resources to produce a half-baked server edition.. There is also the legal issue of your advertising a product which doesn't work. -- Ubuntu server kernel will not boot. https://launchpad.net/bugs/48266 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
