April 2010
Beginner
464 pages
12h 7m
English
Content preview from Ubuntu: Up and Running
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Ubuntu Server Edition
The Server edition of Ubuntu is officially supported by Canonical for 18 months with non-Long Term Support (LTS) releases, and a full five years for an LTS release, such as 10.04.
This edition comes with a range of rugged and reliable programs for fast and secure serving of web pages and applications. These include the Apache and Tomcat web servers, the MySQL and PostgreSQL database management systems, the PHP, Perl, Python, GCC, and Ruby programming languages, and much more.
Setting up and running a production web server is by no means an easy task, even when you have the support of a powerful operating system like Ubuntu Server. Therefore, I recommend you visit the following URL for further details:
| http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition |
Note
By default, no graphical user interface is installed with the Server Edition, as it is unlikely to be required, although you can easily add one if desired using the information supplied in the section Installing Distributions Alongside Ubuntu.