Re: Ubuntu as a server?

thanks guys, these sites will really help.

mortalfunk wrote:
> Hi.
> I still consider myself relatively new to Linux despite running
> Mandrake 8/9 on one of my computers. I've heard that Debian works
> extremely well as a server and since Ubuntu is supposedly based off of
> Debian, can I assume that Ubuntu would as well?
> This server would only be used as a file server and webproxy for around
> 5 Windows XP computers around my house. Needless to say it won't be
> under extremely high loads.
> Does the regular Ubuntu come with the server packs I'll need (samba
> server and squid type packages I'll assume) or is it easily
> downloadable using apt-get?
>
> Thanks.
> Mike

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