<div dir="ltr">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, <a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/lamp_installation_ubuntu6.06">http://www.howtoforge.com/lamp_installation_ubuntu6.06</a> 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. </div>