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UBUNTU DESKTOP


Description:
Discover a new use for your server!

With the Ubuntu Desktop distribution, you have a real graphical desktop interface accessible from any computer.
You therefore benefit from a computer equipped with Linux without having to install it on your computer. Your server then becomes a workstation with softwares such as Firefox, Thunderbird, Gimp... Moreover Ubuntu Desktop deals with the sound, you can thus listen to a Web Radio or your music while working on your remote desk!

Your Ubuntu desktop is available from any computer by installing a client that allows you to it through an encypted connetion. You can share files betweens your local computer and your server and easily exchange and print files.

The "Lucid Lynx" version 10.04 uses the free "x2go", which clients can use Linux, Windows, Mac and Maemo (Nokia) More information

Use:
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Specifications:
Versions: 12.04 LTS 64bit
Core: 3.8.13-grs (OVH)
Languages: English  French  Spanish  German  Polish  Italian  Portuguese 


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Specifications

Please note: the Ubuntu Desktop distribution is not delivered with the configurations necessary to host Internet sites. That remains possible by installing the necessary softwares (Apache/PHP). The use of the Ubuntu Desktop distribution for hosting Internet sites is not recommended, for this use. OVH provides the raw Ubuntu server distributions and OVH's 1 and 2 releases part-configured.

LTS Version: "Long Term Support", support guaranteed until 2013 (10.04) and 2017 (12.04).


Technical details
Access to a server Email services
FTP (port: 21)   -   POP3 (port: 110)   -  
SSH (port: 22)yesIMAP (port: 143)   -  
SMTP (port: 25)   -  
Web services Programming
Web (Port: 80)   -   My SQL   -  
Named (Port: 53)   -   PHP   -  
Control panel
Available interfaceyesx2go
phpMyAdmin   -