[sf-lug] ubuntu 16.04

[jim]

     Ron and I have been trying to get servers
working on old Dell boxes running Ubuntu 12.04.x.
We could not get any of the hosts to support
inbound network sessions (such as sshd and
apache2 and exim4). My latest suspicion (on
the order of superstition) is that the people
who configured the old Dells did something to
the BIOS that restricted use to the enterprise'
purpose.
     Ron and I took a long break.
     I bought a new computer from Zareason and
asked them to install sshd and apache2 and
exim4 on it. I'm now logged in and looking at
various features. It's really different from
AT&T Sys V rev iii and also fairly different
from Ubuntu 12.04.x too. And that's depressing.
     I'd be interested in a KISS Linux distro.

     It looks, at first blush, like Zareason
techs did a good job: sshe and apache2 both
work fine. I'm delaying facing exim4 for now.
     My new host does not have a GUI, just the
command line, which mainly works for me,
excepting some GUI features for which I've
not got GUI experience (wifi for example).