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> I picked the netbook edition for a laptop - thinking it might be optimised for long battery life as well as a small display. I really doubt that. There is n
by hasenj 16y ago
> I picked the netbook edition for a laptop - thinking it might be optimised for long battery life as well as a small display.
I really doubt that.
There is no real difference between the various flavor except in the packages that are installed by default. It's pretty much like you suggested :)
You can get a normal (desktop edition) ubuntu and turn it into a server by just installing packages from the package manager. I personally don't know exactly which packages are installed by default on the server edition, but the point is that the "Server Edition" is not really that special.
Same applies to flavors like Xubuntu and Kubuntu. You can always install xfce and/or kde from apt-get. You can get Xubuntu then install gnome on it.
- jamesgeck0 16y ago>> I picked the netbook edition for a laptop - thinking it might be optimised for long battery life as well as a small display. > I really doubt that. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that has historically been the case. The netbook edition contained some kernel tweaks to make it run better on Atom processors, and also used an interface optimized for smaller screens; most recently Unity.
- SkyMarshal 16y agoCorrect and correct. I've been running it on my Eee PC 1000HE for the past year, it runs beautifully, noticeably more efficiently than the Windows XP that came with it.
- m3koval 16y agoYou are correct in that all of the distributions only vary by the set of packages installed by default. The server edition, however, is designed to run headless and is thus very functionally different (i.e. X is not running by default, there are no window managers installed, etc). Converting the "Desktop Edition" to the "Server Edition" is just as much about removing packages as it is about adding them.