For this article, I'll assume that you already have Ubuntu installed. It's one of the easiest distro's out there to install, ranking right up there with Fedora and Suse. After installation is complete, and you log in for the first time, you'll most likely be prompted to install updates. Install these updates and reboot before continuing. Typically, you don't need to reboot after an update, but just in case you updated your kernel, go ahead and do it.
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Automatic LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) In about 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Feisty Server Edition, you can have a LAMP server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL standard features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. It has been used in production systems, under a variety of names, since 1981.
NFS was developed at a time when we weren't able to share our drives like we are able to today -- in the Windows environment. It offers the ability to share the hard disk space of a big server with many smaller clients. Again, this is a client/server environment. While this seems like a standard service to offer, it was not always like this. In the past, clients and servers were unable to share their disk space.