hey there guys, just wondering what the best linux servers are out there?
ive tried and sucesfully used fedora core 3 (yeah i kow its an old version) and wondering if the latest fedora are still worth it?
ive also heard of Centos? is this any good
and is the uubuntu server just text based? no gui?
CentOS is probably the best all round distro to use as a general purpose server.
Ubuntu server installs only a minimum set of tools as default, no gui, but you could then just fire up aptitude and grab whatever gui you desire (I'd go for beryl, it's super shiny) :)
aiit so i should go for centos then!
also, is it possible to run centos as a virtual maching on winxp? or is not worth it, and i should just dual boot
You can use VMWare player to play any OS image from XP, but you take a performance hit. If you are wanting to run as a server best bet is to dual boot or install your linux distro and run XP from VMware/Xen in linux. ;)
Oh, and if you are new to linux you should go for ubuntu, much better support and everything just tends to be easier to do in ubuntu.
hmm yeah, guess ill just start with ubuntu , ill definately check out centos though
just wondering what's the best desktop enviroment for ubuntu, i can't run beryl cause my pc dosnt have a good graphics card
would wine or fluxbox be a good choice? what other sare there that are nice
^ Haven't used Linux in ages (and never really did), but I'd suppose all the "common" ones should be fine, ie KDE, uhh, poo poo, I forgot the other names... >_> You get the idea.
Gnome is the default gui for ubuntu and is very good, but if you need something a bit more light weight then fluxbox is definitly the way to go.
yeah instaled ubuntu seemed easy enough
do you nkow how i could install mysql, php on it?
ive got apache installed atm
+also tried fluxbox, didnt seem to like me atm, >.> think ill just stick to gnome lol
If you installed ubuntu server version you should have had the option during the install for it to automagically install the LAMP stack for you.
Alternatively you could try this;
Code:
sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 phpmyadmin libapache2-mod-php5 libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql
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I use ubuntu for my server. I run no gui, all console. The server does everything I've ever wanted it to do, I love it :)