Unbuntu Server Edition

Hi No Unbuntu server edition and you can download



From Chris

My computer
Dell Dimension 1100
Microsoft Windows XP Home SP 2
512 MB of Ram
Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 256MB
Intel Celeron CPU 2.53GHz
HDD WDC WD800BB-75JCO 80GB C:
HDD Samsung SV2042H 20GB F:
TSSTcorp CDRWDVD TS-H492C D:
LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-851S E:
Linksys wireless-G WUSB54GS With SpeedBooster
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6

My Security Software
VCOM SystemSuite 7 Professional
Windows Defender

Although Ubuntu has a version customized for servers, I would recommend using Debian instead.

Links:

• Ubuntu download page: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download
• Debian: http://www.debian.org

Message Edited by dasunst3r on 08-08-2007 04:28 PM

Message Edited by dasunst3r on 08-08-2007 04:28 PM

Thank you. Why would you recommend Debian over Ubuntu? Thanks. I understand that I could use Ubuntu desktop ed. as a file server, run apache, dns (all the LAMP). Thanks. -aw

Thanks Kevin. You said that Debian is stable, but isn't Ubuntu desktop pretty stable as well? I need a system so I do not have to reboot every couple of days; tired of all the security updates; tired of the memory loss; I would rather turn the systems on use it for file sharing (samba?) with the other machines on the network and run DNS through it with apache. Can Ubuntu run continuously for days/weeks without a reboot or memory loss? Thanks. -aw

Ubuntu is built off of a Debian base. Deep down they are very similar. Ubuntu has more "bleeding edge" software available. There is a very strict stability test that packages must pass in order to be part of the main Debian repository.

Both Ubuntu and Debian will allow you to have very long uptime. The only time you would need to reboot would be if you had an update to the kernel or video drivers. My desktop Ubuntu computer has been on almost continuously since I moved back to MD the beginning of July. It is not rare to see Linux computers with uptime around 100 days.

Ubuntu server edition does come with a few server-helpful programs pre-installed. It also has no GUI as default. If you want to run your file server with a GUI, then I would recommend going with the regular Ubuntu and then installing the additional packages for your file server (apache, LAMP, etc). The sum of those parts will be less to download than the entire gnome, kde, or xfce desktop gui.

The other option is to wipe clean and go with something else completely, Debian is very stable, the Ubuntu Server download is nice too.