ubuntu a desktop OS?

[Manish Chakravarty]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 11:06 +0100, tata dano wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>  
> I have just recieved my Ubuntu 5.04 last week. And thenI try to
> install it on one of my pc for testing and get to know it as a
> distribution. But according to some local linux people here they said
> that Ubuntu is just designed to be a desktop OS. In this connection, I
> planned to replace my old FC1 (Internet and local network server) with
> Ubuntu. Now I would like to ask your technical opinion if Ubuntu is
> good, efficient and effective to be used as my Internet and local
> network server or it is just for desktop purposes only?
>  
> Your inputs are highly appreciated. Thank you.
>  
> Tata
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Ubuntu is just a Linux Distribution. It contains some software that the
developers decided to include so that it could fit onto a single cd.
Since Ubuntu is basically Linux, it can run as efficiently as FC1 (more
efficiently, because Ubuntu is lighter)

I think you only have to download Squid from the net, All the other
software required for the server is already on the cd.
And yes, you can use Ubuntu as a server without any problems

Regards
Manish

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