![]() ![]() When you host a game to play against your friends, your computer as the host is considered the server.ĭoes that make sense? Or am I just making things more confusing? Unreal Tournament, when you play against computer opponents, it's just you and the computer. In fact, that might be a good example right there. To your computer, whether you're running Apache or Unreal Tournament, it doesn't care. All a server is, is a computer that runs applications such as Apache and MySQL, and waits for client computers to connect to it (or in the case of some software, goes out and touches client computers). But to try and keep it simple, there is nothing special that makes a server a server. There is a much longer answer to this, and I feel like I will get lost in the weeds trying to detail it out. It will dutifully hand out web pages to anyone who hits the IP address of your system. And yes, you can install LAMP in your Ubuntu Desktop environment. Not sure if this would really fit there though. Is it simple to just install LAMP on Ubuntu Desktop or should I just grow a pair and learn how to use Ubuntu Server? Also, are there any significant uses for a home server that I can't do on Ubuntu as opposed to Windows Server? I understand that the common opinion on the Internet (and especially here) is that Ubuntu server is inherently better than Windows Server.Įdit: Oops, I just noticed the "which distro" thread. ![]() ![]() I feel like having a GUI would be less scary, since I know nothing about any of this. From what I understand, it is better to use Ubuntu Server because it comes with PHP and Apache and all of that, but I am rather intimidated by the command line style. I plan on running a TS3 server on it, as well as maybe a web server and an SQL server if I can figure out how. Today I decided I want to turn it into a home server, which I have never done before. I recently got a desktop from a relative, and since I have never used any distro of Linux before (excluding Raspbian) I figured I would install Ubuntu Desktop on it just to see what it was like. Hello, before I begin explaining my question I just want to say that I don't really know most of what I'm talking about and may not use the correct terminology. ![]()
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