> To: [email protected]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re:
> Install Xwindows to Ubuntu Server> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:19:53 +1000
> > I have been reading about the questions posed to Ubuntu. It seems> > that
> > many others have the same trouble as I do. I wonder why Ubuntu> > decided
> > to take the GUI away from the server instllation in the first> > place. It
> > may make the whole program leaner. But for the beginners> > to Linux,
> > Ubuntu, I am sure that efficiency is not their primary> > concern. Their
> > concern is to be up and go to investigate.
My understanding in that there is no GUI for security reasons and to save
system resources. As a Windows convert myself I have had a learning curve with
a variant of Ubuntu server - Ubuntu JeOS. Personally I am glad that the Ubuntu
servers are set the way they are as I have had to learn some command line,
which will always be useful to know. My ubuntu virtual servers have a smaller
disk and memory footprint that ifthey had a GUI and also they are more secure
because of this. SSH makes finding my way round the file system easier. When I
first started I was tempted to install a GUI and I could not do it - now I am
getting happier using the command line, partly because most of the solutions
that are posted to problems are command line also. I agree with the previous
reply, that installing LAMP for example on the desktop version would be the
simplest solution to needing a server with a GUI.
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