[ILUG] Ubuntu rocks.

[John Moylan]

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What really annoys me is the fact the some distros intall Linux-LSB
software like CUPS and Sendmail whether they are needed/selected or not
just because the LSB seems to think they should be standard Linux apps.

John



Liam Bedford wrote:
| Gareth Eason wrote:
|
|>    Just installed my first Ubuntu box last night - server install on a
|>headless box that was already running redhat with / on a RAID partition.
|>(Ubuntu Array 7 Hoary Hedgehog Pre-Release)
|>
|>    After I figured out the rather counter-intuitive disk partitioning
|>thing, it all fell into place and I didn't even have to set up the
|>raidset again - and was more than happy to install on top of it. Damn
|>good stuff!
|>
|>    The server install is quoted as a 'minimalist' install - which is
|>blatantly is not, installing hotplug and associated chuff on my box for
|>one thing, but I wasn't overly pushed about this as Ubuntu is a desktop
|>oriented distro and the server setup is a new thing. I expect it to get
|>better with time.
|>
|
| And for comparison purposes, minimalist CentOS 4 install:
| 656M
|
| including such important apps for servers as:
| bluez-hcidump-1.11-1
| bluez-utils-2.10-2.1
| bluez-libs-2.10-2
| bluez-bluefw-1.0-6
| NetworkManager-0.3.1-3
| xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-23.EL
| xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-23.EL
| desktop-file-utils-0.9-2
|
| ubuntu seems to be a perfectly good start for a server for me (though
| the 6 month upgrade cycle might put me off. But if you're going to
| consider FC for a server, ubuntu would seem to be better in almost all
| areas. Not biased at all. me.. never).
|
| L.
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