When you first boot up the minimal ISO, you have two main options – installation option for the server and for the desktop. The current beta minimal ISO, which I used for this test drive, shows Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu – released last year. However, ignore the la...
Ubuntu Serveris built for server environments, which is a lightweight and minimalistic version that is stripped off of any GUI applications and elements to enhance the speed and performance of running production-grade applications. It canserve as a web server, file server, development server, and ...
Now that we've explored what differentiates Server and Desktop operating systems generally, and looked at how to compare different Linux distributions, we can compare Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server directly. Ubuntu Server is broadly far more lightweight than Ubuntu Desktop, with less installed from the ou...
Read:How to Run OpenVPN on Ubuntu Server Step 1: Back Up Your Data If you plan to install Ubuntu on previously used hardware, we recommend that you back up your data to avoid potential data loss. If you’re using a previously used flash drive to download the Ubuntu ISO file, back up...
Keeping with the theme of further streamlining Ubuntu, starting with this release, LXD snap won’t be pre-installed in the Ubuntu server by default. Instead, we will be applying the same logic as with the ubuntu-minimal images, where we use a small script (lxd-installer) to install LXD ...
Minimal attack surface The best distros will build on the hardware security built into your Linux laptops through regular firmware patching, and ensure that the software layer is secure by adopting a zero trust approach. Overall, your distro should actively work to reduce the attack surface of you...
Lubuntu is a faster, more lightweight and energy saving variant of Ubuntu originally using LXDE, the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment. Starting with 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish," the desktop environment was switched to LXQt and a set of Qt-based applications. It is targeted at everyday PC and...
Like Lubuntu, U-lite is based on Ubuntu. It employs LXDE and bundles lightweight applications into the base system. I didn’t test U-lite mainly because there appears little possibility that it will become an official member of the Ubuntu family. The project was originally called “Ubuntulite...
lightweight system monitoring tool moreutils (0.69-1) [universe] additional Unix utilities mozc-data (2.28.4715.102+dfsg-2.2build7) Mozc input method - data files mozc-server (2.28.4715.102+dfsg-2.2build7) Server of the Mozc input method mozc-utils-gui (2.28.4715.102+dfsg-2.2build7) [universe...
Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator (theme files) fqterm (0.9.10.1-4build3) [universe] BBS client written in Qt freerdp2-shadow-x11 (2.11.7+dfsg1-4) [universe] FreeRDP x11 shadowing server freerdp2-wayland (2.11.7+dfsg1-4) [universe] RDP client for Windows Term...