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Since I have a very old and outdated PC at home, it would be overkill to try and install the default Ubuntu setup in it. There are a lot of documentation online regarding installation in low memory systems. This particular one was what I followed to get my Ubuntu running. In doing just a server install, you will be greeted by the good old command line interface (CLI) each and every time you login. I don’t know about you but in today’s world of mouse clicks, it would be very convenient to have a GUI of some sort. I chose Fluxbox to be my window manager. This is what I did first.

$ sudo apt-get install fluxbox x-window-system-core xdm

The command above installs:

Fluxbox
In Unix (and others including GNU/Linux) computing, Fluxbox is a window manager for the X Window System based on Blackbox 0.61.1.

X Window System
In computing, the X Window System (commonly X11 or X) is a windowing system for bitmap displays.
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X provides the basic framework for a GUI environment: drawing and moving windows on the screen and interacting with a mouse and keyboard.

XDM
(in full, the X Window Display Manager) is the default display manager for the X Window System. It is a bare-bones X display manager. It was introduced with X11 Release 3 in October 1988, to support the standalone X terminals that were just coming onto the market. It was written by Keith Packard.

All definitions taken from Wikipedia

It would be fine and dandy if you have a fast internet connection. Installation of these packages is easy.

“But what if I have no internet connection?”, you might ask.

Ahhh … that’s another story to be told! I will be posting it some time later because I am not feeling up to it right now. So just wait for it.