Edgy in the news

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:15:28PM -0700, Scott wrote:
> Conrad Knauer spake thusly on 10/29/2006 09:30 PM:
> > On 10/29/06, James Purser <purserj at k-sit.com> wrote:
> >>> I mean isn't the point of Ubuntu to be a Desktop OS?
> >> /me points at server install option and says "hmmm?"
> > 
> > Server has its own install CD these days....
> 
> I guess someone forgot to tell the Ubuntu and Kubuntu desktop folks that.
> 
> It's still an option from the menu and has been ever since the regular
> server distro was released. Actually, when I first started using Ubuntu
> (Horay) I recall a server option then as well.

That's because in Hoary, there was no server CD yet.  There is no such
option on the desktop CDs anymore.

> If I recall correctly the main difference between the server edition and
> the others is it gives you a quick and dirty way to install LAMP.
> Having not tried it before, I can only speak from what I recall reading.

It installs a different kernel, installs a command-line system by default,
and includes a number of common server packages on the CD.

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 - mdz