Chapter 8. The Ubuntu Server

• What Is Ubuntu Server?

• Installing Ubuntu Server

• Ubuntu Package Management

• Ubuntu Server Security

• Advanced Topics

• Summary

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 bare-bones 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 release of Ubuntu that came out, Hoary Hedgehog, rectified the problem and allowed for trivial installation of a minimal Ubuntu version suitable for servers. Yet the myth of Ubuntu as a purely ...

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