On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 16:41 -0500, Aaron Kincer wrote: > I think I understand where you are going with your argument and I'll > offer you a few of my own ideas. > > If someone wants a shiny GUI, Ubuntu Server as it is out of the box > isn't for them and never was meant to be for them.
In its current form at any rate. (does the cd offer minimal/lamp/other type options? iirc it does) > > Perhaps Webmin would be sufficient? If not and someone absolutely webmin is... not liked. it breaks stuff. (probably worse then avahi *giggle*) > wants a shiny honking maybe even 3d GUI so they can edit some text > files in a graphical text editor (insanity of that aside), there is no > particular reason why you couldn't add your own. Heck, you could, if > you really wanted, make a standard desktop installation a server. This method has nasty quirks (esp. if you try and setup dhcpd on the desktop without thinking to manually kill and remove dhclient) > Apache will run on a Linux desktop just as happily as it will a > server. Of course you don't get security updates for as long a period > of time as you do a server. > > I would like to point out that as far as servers go, a full-time GUI > is an absolute waste of resources. With the exception of installing > security updates, I rarely ever even touch my servers. absolutely agreed. > > Even in small business settings, if someone is frequently getting on > the server to do something intensive locally, something is wrong. Just > MHO. again, absolutely agree. kk > > > -- Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian / Ubuntu / gNewSense -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
