Timeline for What components are missing comparing server version of linux distro to desktop version? Is it only the DE missing?

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Jun 15, 2015 at 10:02	vote	accept	Aaron Shen
Jun 15, 2015 at 7:59	comment	added	musiKk		This answer could be a bit more succinct as the question was not "why" but "how" the versions differ.
Jun 15, 2015 at 7:04	comment	added	slm♦		Security is a by product of #2 not it's own. Also this A isn't meant to be exhaustive. The question as posed is too broad to be fully covered, so I went w/ giving them 2 of the larger reasons. As to the what I did cover that, by highlighting the methods one could use to see the differences in the various versions of a Red Hat based distro such as Fedora. Again too broad a topic to cover in a A on SE, but it's still a Q that comes up enough that I thought it warranted a rough outline of the reasons that there are different packaging options for a given distro such as Fedora in my example.
Jun 15, 2015 at 5:00	comment	added	lcd047		Reason #3 (should be #1): security. Every bit of software you install on a server is a potential security problem. The less junk you install, the smaller the attack surface. Reason #4 (should be #2): defaults. An application run on a server usually needs very different tuning than the same application run on a desktop. But I believe the OP was asking about what, rather than why?
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Jun 15, 2015 at 4:06	history	answered	slm♦	CC BY-SA 3.0