[Red5] Choosing a Linux Platform

[Lenny Sorey]

Hey Jason,

You know, I hadn't thought of using Putty after the installation.

Shows you how long I haven't fooled with Linux. ; )

Thanks for the suggestion.

Lenny




On 12/28/07, Jason Powell <jason at thepowells.ca> wrote:
>
> Hey Lenny
>
> As a couple people mentioned distros designed for servers are very easy to
> set up without a GUI (usually after the installation is finished I take the
> keyboard and monitor off the machine and use putty and vi) but if you get
> really stuck and want a gui 'apt-get install ubuntu-desktop' should install
> X and the necessary trimmings (I think, I haven't touched Ubuntu in ages but
> a friend of mine swears by it).
>
> So far as stuff like Java, Ant and Tomcat go I generally don't install
> whatever the distro ships with, these days it's very trivial to download and
> install the latest versions.  I also prefer to build stuff like ffmpeg and
> it's dependencies from source so I know it's going to do what I want it to
> (which isn't as difficult as it sounds, it's mostly a bunch of untarring and
> './configure && make && make install').
>
> Jason
>
> Lenny Sorey wrote:
>
>  Hello ll,
>
> Hope everyone is having a nice holiday.
>
> I've got some extra time this weekend so I thought I would
> try to setup a Linux distro on an extra machine I have.
>
> It has been a while since I played with Linux.
>
> I have decided on Ubuntu Server and will install the LAMP option as well.
>
> I will have to install Tomcat and check the Java version as well.
>
> I do have one question for all you Ubuntu users.
>
> Does the Server also come with a GUI interface that I can
> install use and then turn off once I have everything configured.
>
> I realize that this is probably a question for the Ubuntu forum
> which I will also submit to them but I thought I would ask
> here since it appears that a number of folks are using Ubuntu
> as a server of choice.
>
> Any advice on this matter is greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lenny
>
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