Mac look alike

[Bob]

Thank you. I would love to give it a try!
MS Really irritates me. ;o)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Kane" <googoleyes at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions" 
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: Mac look alike


Bob, you can run all the servers you want from regular Ubuntu, and
take advantage of the GUI it provides. Lots of servers have graphical
interfaces available for configuration (gadmin, for example), and
there are a few different Web-based remote administration tools like
phpmyadmin or Webmin that look nice, work great, and require only a
web server to run.


On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Bob <bob at theoriginalgrassmasters.com> 
wrote:
> Is there a way to run a gui for the server end? Someone like myself that 
> is
> tired of using MS does not have a whole lot of time entering and learning
> code. I would love to use Umbuntu but for 100.00 for ms server home it 
> seems
> almost worth it to stay with MS.
>
> Any help would be great!!
>
> Bob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: mdovell at comcast.net
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 10:23 AM
> Subject: re: Mac look alike
> "It's not ridiculous. Most people don't know that free/libre exists.
> It's our job to educate them. And we have to take into account
> what software people use. I think in most cases, they only need
> an office suite, mail, browsing and IM. If so, Linux is a very
> good alternative. If they are using, say, Photoshop otoh, Linux is
> not such a good alternative, despite of Gimp."
>
> That's true. The other thing its getting much easier for Linux as a whole 
> to
> use. Back in 2000 I was interested and tried RedHat. My hard drive created 
> a
> partition...but unfortunately there was no boot loader (i.e Grub). As a
> result I gave up. Compair that to ubuntu now and you can pop in a usb or a
> cd and be set...wubi works for my home desktop and the usb worked on my
> laptop. Obviously other operating systems have their user base. I just got
> sick of windows for the most part. In places where I've worked it was
> interesting to see what was used. Panic attacks over viruses mandated at 
> one
> place to use a virus scanner....which took well over an hour a day! In
> another place they use linux somewhat but it's still mostly command line 
> (no
> gui? why?). There's so many places that could easily use the OS but for 
> some
> reason they like spending more money on things. Emulation I think might
> bridge some of this gap. Applications I saw much of the time were old DOS
> ones which were emulated in windows.
>
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