[geeks] Needed: A good sparc workstation

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mar 8, 2009, at 4:17 AM, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> I found that out recently when I upgrade my local server from a  
> much enhanced
> red hat 7.2 system to Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS server. Lots of things were  
> no longer included, and you could not IMHO do any meaningful  
> maintainance.
> I ended up installing so many packages that it would have been  
> easier and
> faster to install the regular one.
> I also found that I could not do a lot of adminisration things  
> without a gui, and this was a server with a 640x480 monchrome  
> monitor. Luckily I
> figured out how to connect to it using my Mac as an Xterminal.

If you couldn't figure out how to do it without a GUI, you were doing  
something wrong since a lot of people run Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on  
completely headless systems (meaning serial console).