https://www.jtalbot.com/tags/software/ Recent content in Software on jtalbot/blog Hugo en-US Copyright 2005-2026 jtalbot - CC BY-SA 4.0 Sun, 03 May 2026 11:45:00 -0600 https://www.jtalbot.com/blog/ubuntu-server/ Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:30:00 -0600 https://www.jtalbot.com/blog/ubuntu-server/ <p>I finally upgraded my Linux firewall at home. I had a hard drive warn me that it was going to die soon (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Monitoring,_Analysis,_and_Reporting_Technology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">S.M.A.R.T.</a> saved my bacon), so I decided the time had come to overhaul the system.</p> <p>I recently switched from Windows XP to <a href="http://kubuntu.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kubuntu</a> at work, so I thought I&rsquo;d use Ubuntu at home as well. In the process of figuring out what packages I wanted on my server, I played with various ubuntu derivatives. I wanted to keep it light weight, so I decided to go without any GUI or with the <a href="http://xfce.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Xfce</a> included with <a href="http://xubuntu.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Xubuntu</a> over <a href="http://realvnc.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VNC</a>. In the end I went with <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/server" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ubuntu server</a> with no GUI at all.</p>