Re: ubuntu upgrades was Re: [ILUG] Linux PCs from Tesco Richard Dunne wrote:
> I think some of the problem is that people see ubuntu desktop as more than a
> desktop OS. 
> I installed it on my laptop and went straight in to a console and installed
> Bind server so I could play with it. 
> I could never do that with a windows XP or Vista PC. Ubuntu desktop ticks
> all the boxes for a personal desktop OS. 
> It's when you start using it as a Linux server that you run into problems
> when you go to upgrade. 

To me a server is a machine in a datacentre that I access by SSH and has
no GUI installed. And I would never try to upgrade the OS on a
production server. Instead I would replace it with a new (tested)
machine running the new OS.

So Ubuntu works just fine for me as a server :)

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