The "It's Just a Desktop Distro" Problem

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 03:52:08AM -0500, nocturn wrote:

> All in all Ubuntu is ready for servers.   And I do think there is an
> image problem on this as I did not know some people where already using
> it for that purpose (Ubuntu.com and canonical.com).

That's an interesting point...perhaps we should have something on the
websites which indicates that the servers behind them run Ubuntu?

> There are some things I'd like to see though:
> - Stricter file permissions on a server (my SuSE server runs with much
> tighter permissions).

Can you be more specific?

> -  Inclusion of the MIT kerberos daemons in a security-tracked branch
> (now in universe).

MIT Kerberos upstream has a history of being responsive to security issues,
so I don't see a problem here.  Please specify exactly which packages you
expect.

-- 
 - mdz