Fwd: Ubuntu Instant Server Idea

You need to be careful about what choices you make for users so that you 
don't limit freedom. Should ubuntu instant database server install mysql 
or postgres? Mysql 4.1 or 5.0? As for web servers, there are a very wide 
variety of possible packages I would want to install so I don't know how 
you guys could possibly figure it out for me up front.

To run a server you need to be wise in the ways of unix, so creating a 
CD so I don't have to install a few packages (which is easy with 
apt-get!) doesn't seem to be super-worthwhile.

Anyway, I'm new to ubuntu and I love it very much. (I'm an 
ex-Microsoftie who now sees the light.) This thread seems somewhat noisy 
with minute by minute updates on when IRC chats will happen so I may not 
be able to stay very long...(Personally, I believe if you've got a good 
idea, think it through yourself, write a 2 page spec, and *then* get 
others on board.)

Cheers!

-Keith 

Chris Beauchamp wrote:

>Paul M Edwards wrote:
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>>On 11/7/05, George Farris <farrisg at cc.mala.bc.ca> wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 13:31 -0500, Matt Galvin wrote:
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>>>>1) Install Ubuntu Instant Web Server
>>>>2) sudo apt-get install ubuntu-instant-databse-server (which would
>>>>install the additional packages and therefore create this multipurpose
>>>>server)
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>>>Could this not be a part of the Ubuntu server iso.  During installation
>>>one screen would have a list of services that the installer could check
>>>and the installation would proceed to install said software.
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>>>[ ] Apache2 Web server
>>>[ ] Postgresql Database server
>>>[ ] Samba File and Print server
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>>>and so on.
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