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Skriven 2010-08-12 14:44:03 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 61652 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: ubuntu server was a huge day
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 AA> The idea of running a server edition of ubuntu intrigues me. I like the
 AA> idea of having a central box that can store shared files. But the idea
 AA> is competing with the simpler solution of plopping a network-ready
 AA> harddrive on a switch.

 AZ> I very briefly downloaded and looked at Ubuntu Server edition...
 AZ> and was disappointed that it booted into terminal (command line)
 AZ> mode; I'm sure that meets many people's needs... but not mine.

it is a SERVER not a workstation... one doesn't need all that GUI mess for a
server ;) in fact, there's not a lick of GUI on it but you can easily add it if
needed... of course, that means that there's much less memory for the server
apps to use for their work...

one of my servers only has 112M RAM in it... another one, the main back end
server, has 512M in it... it is currently using about 20M of swap but that's
due to a very poorly written app that is rarely used... the longer it goes
without being used, the less swap is consumed...

as far as configuring the server, there's nothing really major to configure
that can't be done with anything more complicated than an editor... one of my
first moves on most any *nix installation is to get mc on there... then i can
go where i want and look at what i want any time i want... configuring apache
was quite simple as i only needed to add additional virtual domains and set an
"override" for the default page... after that, it was simply a matter of
restarting apache via the standard "/etc/init.d/apache2 restart" which has now
morphed to "service apache2 restart"...

mysql was slightly different and a tiny bit more involved but not all that
much... a few tweaks to the config here and there and a similar restart as
above and we're done... php needed a few minor tweaks as well but those, too,
took only a minute or two and a restart of apache again... after that it was
just a matter of putting the pages/apps in the proper places with the proper
permissions and off we went to the races ;)

FWIW: back on the memory use with a GUI from above, my main desktop workstation
only has 768M RAM and most others only have 256M if they're lucky... barring
those, a laptop with 2G, another with 3G and one workstation with 4G... and all
of those run much slower than the older machines with much less RAM in them...
of course, they're all running winwhatever, too... one of the servers is
(still!!) running OS/2 Warp 3 Connect while all the others are running ubuntu
server ;)

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