Hello Ed!

26 May 08 19:32, you wrote to me:

 RC>> The mail hub machine handles all of my publically accessible
 RC>> operations, obviously the mail hub itself, the jamnntpd server
 RC>> and bbbs, it was running under Xandros Linux, a debian variant.

 EH> Xandros isn't too bad, but I don't care for their version of KDE.

I guess I fell for it because of the Windows features they added, but yeah
the KDE was bloat.

 EH> If memory serves me correctly, X failed on my Xandros as well and that
 EH> is why I went to Ubuntu back in version 4.10 (October 2004). Xandros
 EH> has only advanced from 3.0 to 4.0 in that time and Ubuntu is now at
 EH> 8.04 (April 2008). Ubuntu is a much more robust distro with an active
 EH> upgrade program.

I hope they dont slow down.

 RC>> Anyway, not wanting to take any chances, I elected to blow
 RC>> Xandros off the system and I installed Ubuntu 8.04 on the
 RC>> machine, I looked at Ubuntu early on before I got Xandros, I
 RC>> forgot why I didnt select it.

 EH> Are you using the desktop or server release? No real difference other
 EH> than the server release is aimed at enterprise servers.

I tried the server release and I couldnt get it to show a display, I
downloaded the desktop ISO and it did ok, so the desktop version is what I
am using.


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