Comments on How to install a Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Minimal Server

People deploying production systems shouldn't use this release unless absolutely mandatory. It will only have 6-9 months of support.  Stay with the LTS releases (14.04/16.04) if you need longer support periods.

There are exceptions, of course. That is mainly for extremely new hardware which hasn't been back-ported to 16.04 or other extremely new software that will only be available in the newer release.

Yes, that's what I mentioned in chapter 2. You can find the link to the LTS version of this tutorial there as well.

hai, thanks for the setup, just one thing. the hostname is NOT hostname-server.example.tld thats only hostname-server

as the ubuntu installer tell, its a single word.

I know what the Ubuntu installer suggests and I suggest to enter the full hostname as this causes less problems later when you install additional software. But you are free to follow the Ubuntu recommendation of course.

I suggest you dont install the standard system utils, it just slowdown your server and then its really a minimal install.

Also please dont show the examples with user Administrator.

main reason for this is that due to this use, you CAN NOT use this for a samba 4 AD DC setup. in that case you may not have Administrator as local user on the system, since its proviced in the provisioning of samba.

You can leave out the standard utils but then a lot of basic commands will be missing. So for most users, it is better to install the standard utils right away. I never had a problem with username administrator, but I don't run a Samba AD server here, so there can be a samba specific issue with that username.

Thank you, very easy to follow. This is my first experience with linux and this is making it enjoyable to learn.

Thanks again