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Newbie question - stucked in the creation

Posted on October 3, 2014
ulmo

By ulmo

Just created an account here, and created a droplet with Ubuntu. The installation is finished, but what now ? When I login to the root - all I see is the “command prompt” - where is the GUI ? Thanks,



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