pfarrell;385628 Wrote: 
> maggior wrote:
> > Since you will be running headless, I would think using Ubuntu
> Server
> > would be your best bet. 
> 
> I respectfully disagree.
> I run all my servers headless, and always install the full GUI. It
> takes
> very little disk space, and makes setup and installation of packages
> so
> much easier.
> 
> 

You're right :-).

I actually ran Open SuSE with the GUI intitially.  I found that I used
YaST (their configuration/system management tool) a LOT.  Then I
discovered that you can run it in a regular terminal window :-).  For
that reason I can get by with no GUI.

I think the package selection can trip up newbie users.  But on the
other hand, when the services are installed, they are disabled by
default, so the newbie has to figure out how to enable them anyway.  As
a newbie, I went through this myself.

Even though I have tons of disc space, I am old school and perfer to
only install what I need.  Especially for a newbie, I guess that
philosophy doesn't make sense.


-- 
maggior

Rich
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SqueezeCenter 7.2.1 (7.3 had dropouts for me) and SqueezeSlave. 
MusicIP has been turned off temporarily while I move to a lossless
version of my library.
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