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Choosing and Installing a Linux Distribution Part III
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Assistive technology and easier device management with Ubuntu
The default server installation supports up to 4GB of RAM on 32-bit PCs, and also provides kernel
support for the GFS and OCFS2 cluster file systems. While GFS and OCFS2 are still relatively new
file systems, and therefore may not be ready for use on your production systems, they are available
for you to try out in Ubuntu.
To use Ubuntu as a thin-client server, Linux Terminal Server Project software is included in the
Ubuntu server. You can read about how to use LTSP on the Ubuntu Thin Client HOWTO
(https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThinClientHowto).
The default server install takes up only about 400MB of disk space, although it is a very bare-bones
system. In addition to base system packages and core utilities, you get software for managing your
network connections and file systems, but not much else. Luckily, however, you do get application
management utilities (such as apt-get), so any open source software you want to add to your server
is just an apt-get away with an Internet connection.
The most common type of server that many people install is a LAMP server system, which uses
Linux to support an Apache Web server and provides the MySQL database.
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