Re: Are there different Installer Packages between Server and Desktop?

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Are there different Installer Packages between Server and Desktop?
Date	2017-03-20 11:30 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 10:10:16AM +0100, aorlikowski@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I'm interested in installing Debia _SERVER_, not Desktop, but on your
> Website, there is just offering Debian.
> 
> Are there different Installer Packages between Server and Desktop? If
> the SERVER package different where can I get it. What is the Internet link?
> 
> It would be helpful when you mention it on your website, that Debian is
> either Server or Desktop or both of them.

Other answers in the thread already sum it up: for Debian there's no
difference whether "server" or desktop -- it is the way you *use* it
what makes a difference. And it can be both at the same time.

That said, if you have a narrow use case in mind, it makes of course
sense to just install what is needed (as others have said, for example,
no desktop environment at all).

That's what the Debian "tasks" are meant for: groups of packages
recommended for specific uh... tasks, there for you to select with
a single click at installation time (or later, if you wish!). You
can select several tasks (remember, the installation can play several
roles at a time).

The differentiation in "server" and "desktop" only really made sense
for commercial vendors, as a device to extract as much money as
possible from their customers. For a free operating system this
device doesn't make that much sense (that's perhaps why you will
get somewhat surprised reactions over here ;-)

regards
- -- tomás
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Re: Are there different Installer Packages between Server and  Desktop? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-20 11:30 +0100
  Re: Are there different Installer Packages between Server and  Desktop? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-03-20 21:40 +0100
    Re: Are there different Installer Packages between Server and  Desktop? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-20 23:00 +0100

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