Install Xwindows to Ubuntu Server

[Mike Lane]

> To: ubuntu-server at lists.ubuntu.com> From: daniel at rimspace.net> Subject: Re: Install Xwindows to Ubuntu Server> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:19:53 +1000
> > 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.
My understanding in that there is no GUI for security reasons and to save system resources.  As a Windows convert myself I have had a learning curve with a variant of Ubuntu server - Ubuntu JeOS.  Personally I am glad that the Ubuntu servers are set the way they are as I have had to learn some command line, which will always be useful to know. My ubuntu virtual servers have a smaller disk and memory footprint that ifthey had a GUI and also they are more secure because of this. SSH makes finding my way round the file system easier.  When I first started I was tempted to install a GUI and I could not do it - now I am getting happier using the command line, partly because most of the solutions that are posted to problems are command line also.  I agree with the previous reply, that installing LAMP for example on the desktop version would be the simplest solution to needing a server with a GUI.
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