Ubuntu Server 8.10 Review
Ask any server admin the best flavor of Linux for servers and you will hear every name under the sun. Many enterprises that have the money and need support chose the Red Hat path. For many it comes down to what the server admin is comfortable with. I love Ubuntu. It is a well built OS with a great community behind it. I also love that there is no GUI installed. This might turn many of admins away. If no GUI is a problem then I recommend you install Webmin which will allow you to manage these services. Check out this post on Webmin from maketecheasier.com
Here are some of the new features of Ubuntu Server 8.10:
- DKMS- allows kernel drivers to be automatically rebuilt when new kernels are released.
- ClamAV antivirus and SpamAssassin are now fully supported and located in the repository.
- Samba 3.2 provides:
- Clustered File Server Support
- Encrypted network transport
- IPv6
- Better integration with Microsoft Windows(TM) clients and servers
- Sun’s OpenJDK and Apache’s Tomcat are added to the repository
- The gcc compiler enables several security hardening features and warnings by default.
- Encrypted private directories
- OpenLDAP settings uniformed in multi-replica environment
- PAM authentication framework
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