adding X to server (+ documentation)

[JoE]

Hmm . . . i'm not suggesting that we use all the same documentation.
It would be useless, for example, to have synaptic documentation on
server.  But a good guide for installing various X environments (basic
X windows stuff, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, etc) should be
there.  Mostly what I meant was that the changes we make to the way
documentation is used and accessed should be echoed.  While it would
be nice to assume that all server users have access to a machine with
the graphical interface on them I think that rather defeats the
purpose of server.  if it can't stand on it's own, then it's not
viable.

On 7/31/06, Marcus Wagenaar <mwagena at few.vu.nl> wrote:
> JoE wrote:
> > This is really only partially appropriate to us, but a friend of mine
> > recently tried to add X to his server install of ubuntu.  In the end,
> > after much frustration, he added ubuntu-desktop because it was all
> > that would work.
>
> I can confirm  this. My friend had exactly the same problem while
> setting up his server with ubuntu. And he is not a linux-newbie, he has
> multiple machines running lfs, gentoo etcetera.
>
> > Also, he was complaining about the uselessness of the documentation.
> > We've been doing a lot of that lately as well.  Those of you who are
> > also on the server team, bear in mind that any improvements we make to
> > our documentation need to be echoed in the text based server
> > documentation to be truly useful.
>
> I think this isn't realistic. It's a nice goal to have the text-based
> documentation up to date with the newest docs, wiki entries and so
> forth, but I think it shouldn't be first priority. It's quite reasonable
> to expect someone installing an ubuntu-server to have access to another
> machine with "normal" (ie. graphical) access to the internet. In my
> opinion the focus should be on getting the documentation as complete as
> possible. The text-based docs obviously shouldn't be neglected
> altogether but I reckon administrators would favor complete "graphical"
> documentation above incomplete text-based documentation.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marcus Wagenaar
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       ~joe auerbach

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