Install Xwindows to Ubuntu Server

[David Dang]

Hi,

I am new to Ubuntu.  I downloaded Unbuntu Desk top and having used it very
effectively for the last few months. However, I am stuck wit Ubuntu Server
because it does not have Xwindows. I tried to install it many times but I
met with failure because it always encounter an IP address that it could not
be contacted.

Fnally, I used the following site,
http://www.howtoforge.com/lamp_installation_ubuntu6.06 in orderto install
the GUI.  The only difference is that my Ubuntu server is Version 8.04
instead of 6.06.  After completing all installation, I end up with the root
prompt. I typed reboot.  After some burring activity, starting with the
Ubuntu loading screen, I ended up with a black screen and a complete
silence.  I could not get anywhere else.

I have been reading about the questions posed to Ubuntu.  It seems that many
others have the same trouble as I do.  I wonder why Ubuntu decided to take
the GUI away from the server instllation in the first place.  It may make
the whole program leaner.  But for the beginners to Linux, Ubuntu, I am sure
that efficiency is not their primary concern.   Their concern is to be up
and go to investigate.  Once proficient they will start to fine tune, to
make their server leaner, more efficient, to educate themselves to the world
of Linux, to be independent of the slow GUI, etc...   It seems to me that
Ubuntu wants to convert user to the world of Linux, but by not making the
easy availability of the GUI, they are creating a big hurders for the new
users to jump.  It seems that they efeat their own purpose.

Besides, there is another thing that I find annoying in using Help
communications from Ubuntu or SLUG.  Most people who need to use all those
Help files are beginners.  Yet I find communicators using code names like
Heron, Dapper, etc...  as if everyone should know it.  They communicate to
each other and dabble in those code names as if they are in an exquisite
group and they want to keep it that way.  I think, in most cases, a beginner
knows only the name of the version that he is downloading and using.   It is
very annoying for me to search for a word that I thought that I had to know
in my process of learning Ubuntu,only to find out after lengthy waste of
time that that word only refers to an older version of Ubuntu.   In order to
promote Linux, Ubuntu, not only it has to be a great program, which I find
it is, so far, but it has to be made easy to learn for beginners, which I
find it is not.  One of the way I think Ubuntu can do is advice
communicators to avoid using code name while referring to Version (or if you
love the code names so much, at least add a Version name to it in closed
brackets.   This will save many people many hours to search for the code
names.

I hope that you treat the above comments as constuctive suggestion.

Regards,

David Dang.
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