Ubuntu Server graphical interface?

[Aaron Kincer]

If you are a consultant, I would argue your job is to provide the best
advice and steer customers away from making bad decisions.

Regardless, you might as well install the desktop version and make it a
server since the GUI packages won't be supported for the full server support
term.

Either that or compile source packages for a lightweight GUI yourself.

You might want to include in your contracts provisions to pay for your time
to apply any security and stability updates manually for the GUI that you
will almost certainly have to do.

Just my $0.02 worth.

Aaron Kincer

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Sander van Vugt <sander.van.vugt at xs4all.nl>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sure, I know, you shouldn't run a graphical interface on a server. But
> some of my customers just want to be able to start up a graphical
> environment anyway. And since it's my task to server my customers in the
> most optimal way, I'd like to have some advice here: is there any
> recommended procedure of setting up X on Ubuntu Server, or is something
> like
>
> sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg xfonts* gnome
>
> just the best way of doing it?
>
> Thanks for your advice,
>
> Sander
>
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