I'm thinking that with all the hassles I am having with my Mandrake box,
maybe the switch to Ubuntu would be cost effective in the long run if it
works as solidly as Debian in a server env.
Anybody here have any experience with it?
The basic question I have is one of weather it comes configured with
sane defaults or will it be an exercise in grunt force hand
configuration? Samba is a serious consideration as I am very new to it
(I have only recently had windows running on the network) and Mandrake
made it easy, which means I am rather ignorant to its inner workings.
How well does it work on older equipment?
Is VNC slow like it is in the new Mandriva or SuSE?
I figure I can be off-line for 24 hours at best... is it even remotely
realistic for a non-guru to get an Ubuntu based, full blown Internet
server environment (Apache, Perl, PHP, MySQL, bind, Postfix, POP3 &
IMAP, SSH, VNC, Samba, FTP) up and running in that time?
Yikes. its 3AM! How did that happen? Servers, can't live with out em,
can't do a damn thing with em.
Thanks
Scy