Joey S. Eisma wrote:
hi!
ive been wondering, what makes a distro a server? sometimes i
overheard people saying, "pang desktop lang yang distro na yan".. isnt
it like i can simply pick up that "pang desktop.. " and then install
server components (squid, q-mail, apache, what have you...) then it's
already a server? it's all the same kernel right?
someone enlighten me..
A Server provides one or more services (e.g. Sendmail, Postfix, Apache,
Squid, etc) to one or more
Computers (Desktop or Other Servers). Usually, Servers have large disk
storage and large caches
optimized to handle multitasking and mutiltiuser services like
fileserver, SQL, mail, Web, etc. You
install for example, Samba-Server, OpenAFS-Server, Postfix, Sendmail,
Apache, Squid, Mysql-Server
and other packages that provide server services.
A Desktop provides Workstation Services like Graphics User Interfaces
and client services. You
install for example, Thunderbird, Firefox, Mysql-Client and other
packages that provide client
services.
Usually, Desktop computers have smaller disk storage as data storage is
provided by Fileservers.
Desktops have powerful CPUs because most of the computing work are
handled by workstations.
A Computer may be running only Server services or Desktop services
depending upon the range
and capacity of the services that you want out of your Server. Large
Enterprise Organizations
have dedicated Computers as Servers and lots of them. Home users usually
have Server and
Desktop running on the same computer.
Hope this helps.
O Plameras
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