Need help with Ubuntu install on IBM thinkserver

[CharlesA]

Hit the windows key and do a search for Terminal. Assuming you installed from the Ubuntu Desktop iso.

Out of curiosity, what type of business are you trying to start?

Do you have a contingency plan in the event the server goes down?

[yancek]

Other ways to open a terminal are to simultaneously hold down the Ctrl+Alt+t keys which will open it.
Go to the Dash, the Ubuntu logo in the extreme upper left and click it and in the search box type terminal, then click the terminal icon below.
Not sure how you would move the panel on the left but I know it can be done. You can create a desktop shortcut from a terminal with this command:

gnome-desktop-item-edit /home/don/Desktop --create-new

Opens a window, fill in the boxes. It probably isn't installed by default and if not, it will prompt you to install and give the command:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gnome-panel

I'm sure there are other ways.

[buzzingrobot]

You can build your own kernel on Fedora:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel

Fedora supports two releases at any given time. Given Fedora's purpose in life, some users might want to stay with the older of the two releases. That's Fedora 22 currently. (And still "newer" than many common Linux distributions.) After Fedora 24 is released in May, F22 will be EOL'd, so upgrade in place to F23, and so on throughout future release cycles.

Fedora publishes a list of "Common Bugs" for each release that are not considered serious enough (or perhaps fixable) to delay a release: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F23_bugs