[clug] Debian Sarge or Ubuntu for a server?

Drew Parsons Drew.Parsons at anu.edu.au
Wed Jun 15 00:35:33 GMT 2005


On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 08:16 +1000, Ian Matters wrote:
> Hi all.
> 

> I recognise that Ubuntu is largely targeted at the desktop user  
...
> The first one is  
> that Ubuntu has two upgrades per year which is great if you are after  
> glitz I suspect that biannual upgrades might get to be a bit tedious  
> after a while in a server application.  
...
> The second is that as a  
> server I would prefer to run the machine "headless" i.e. with no  
> monitor, keyboard or mouse.  It seems that CUPS is broken in Ubuntu  
> to the degree that remote web-based CUPS administration is disabled.   

Sounds to me like you've pretty much answered your own question...

Drew



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