On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 08:48 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote: > 2011/9/27 Juan J. <reidrac@>: > > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 08:28 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote: > >> [...] > >> I'd suspect the average person on the end of the phone wouldn't be too > >> scared of being talked through fixing it rather than average bloke on > >> the end of th phone where you say "First go to the server and go to > >> the console and do this" <- Easiest way to destroy sales ever. > > > > Being able to connect over SSH and fix things is priceless :) > > Yesterday I spent nearly an hour explaining how to do port forwards to > the head of IT at a company I deal with now and again so I could do > this. That is hassle that is best avoided in all honesty.
If the head of IT had problems to do a port forward, something's broken... and it's not Linux hehehe > <snip> > > I know people in a corporate environment that use RHEL basically because > > the GUI tools. The have the feel of Linux power, but at the same time > > it's just point & click in a dialog window. > > This is more or less exactley my point really. I couldn't stress enough the "optional" part in my previous message :) Actually the fact Ubuntu has a good reputation as Desktop OS plays against the distribution in the server arena. I've seen it a dozen of times, technical people discarding Ubuntu Server and using Debian instead without providing a good reason for that but "it's Ubuntu Server and I don't like it for servers". We're obviously talking about different users here, but having desktop + GUI tools by default in Ubuntu Server would be a no-go for the technical userbase of Ubuntu. Regards, Juan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
