Re: Question for the geeks out there

From: Christophe <xof_at_chanticleer.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 21:30:50 -0800

Right, I was thinking for a home computer / laptop install. Personally, I'd never use Linux for my personal machine, and I'd never run a graphic UI on a server.

On Dec 15, 2013, at 9:29 PM, David Coons <yahoo_at_artscans.com> wrote:

> Many professionals don't even run the user interface on their servers. We run ZFS on Sun's Solaris operating system and don't even have a window manager installed. No apps. No flashy colors, no user interface.
> The reason is most of these servers are running:
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> A network file system like ZFS
> Apache for serving up websites
> mySQL or PostreSQL for the database
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> On 12/15/13 6:10 PM, Christophe wrote:
>> The Ubuntu graphic interface is pretty good, and has a ton of support out there. It's hard to beat Ubuntu if you are going to run desktop Linux.
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>> On Dec 15, 2013, at 6:10 PM, samoolives_at_yahoo.com wrote:
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>>> David, I've seen you use Command Prompts to run things. I'd prefer a graphic interface, not being very good with command prompts. One website recommends Zorin OS, which sounds like something I'm looking for. Have you heard of it/what do you think of that version?
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