[ubuntu-uk] What makes a Server install? (Was Re: Not a good press)

[Colin Law]

2009/11/8 Andy Smith <andy at strugglers.net>:
> Hi Rob,
>
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:42:16PM +0000, Rob Beard wrote:
>> Andy Smith wrote:
>> > On a related note, can someone tell me officially what defines an
>> > install of Ubuntu Server?  I ask because this page:
>> >
>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
>> >
>> > says that 8.04 LTS has an EOL date in 2011 for desktop or 2013 for
>> > server.
>> >
>> > Assuming I installed it from debootstrap or similar pointing at
>> > hardy repositories, does that make it a server?
>
> [...]
>
>> I'm guessing that things like Firefox, Xorg and other such things that
>> you generally wouldn't have on a server would be supported until 2011,
>> whereas I guess things like bind, openssh-server, samba, mysql and
>> things that you would generally find on a server would be supported
>> until 2013.
>
> Sounds logical, but a way to find out what is and isn't supported
> would be nice...

I presume that everything on the Server CD image is supported.

Colin

>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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