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The Official Ubuntu Book
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The Official Ubuntu Book

by Benjamin Mako Hill, Jono Bacon, Corey Burger, Jonathan Jesse, Ivan Krstić
August 2006
Beginner content levelBeginner
448 pages
9h 22m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 5. The Ubuntu Server

UBUNTU 4.10, LOVINGLY KNOWN AS WARTY WARTHOG, was the first public version of Ubuntu. Its installation media provided no obvious way to install the barebones operating system (OS) without a full desktop environment. The system administrator crowds, easily irritable and feisty by nature, were greatly annoyed: They proclaimed Ubuntu was just a desktop distribution, and sauntered back to their caves in contempt.

The next version of Ubuntu that came out, Hoary Hedgehog, rectified the problem and allowed for trivial installation of a minimal Ubuntu suitable for servers. Yet the myth of Ubuntu as a purely desktop-oriented distribution ...

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