[LUNI] Installing Debian on brand new dell dimension 9200

Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com
Mon Aug 27 07:38:24 CDT 2007


> Dunno why you'd have X on a server, but if you must then I'd go with
> whichever will make that easier on your hardware.  Without X - which is
> my idea of a server configuration <grin> - I would probably go with
> Debian just because that's what I run on other servers.  But if Xen
> support hadn't been not quite ready in time for Dapper I might well be
> running Ubuntu on the most recently setup box.  If I were doing that
> now, rather than a year ago, it might well got the other way.

I agree, except in my case there is an application I need to run on
the server that requires X.  Nonetheless, I'd like to get X working in
Deb, it feels like giving up just using ubuntu.

Jay


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