desktop vs. server?

[Steve]

On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:52:01 +0100, Joshua Solomin <jsolomin at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> I'm about to try converting a spare computer of mine to Ubuntu (my
> first real foray into administering my own Linux system).  I'd love to
> get a chance to play with a good desktop GUI, to see if it would work
> well enough for my purposes to fully convert over to Linux from
> Windows.  However, I also know that I'll definitely want to use it as
> a Samba file server, and possibly also web server/application
> server/mysql.  So I'm waffling between installing desktop vs.
> installing server.  Any advice -- would it be easier to enable
> desktop-style features on a server install, or to add the server
> utilities I need onto a desktop install?
>
> thanks much,
> Joshua
>
It’s 'six of one half a dozen of the other'.  I’d start off with the  
desktop system just to get used to Linux and then add the software for a  
server from the repos, or you could, if you partition the disk suitably,  
install desktop and server separately and boot the appropriate one  
depending which I was playing with.

-- 
Steve