On Feb 13, 2008 7:25 PM, Neal McBurnett <<a href="mailto:neal@bcn.boulder.co.us">neal@bcn.boulder.co.us</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I'd suggest collecting the forum input on the wiki and pointing folks at the wiki for faqs. Often forum input ends up in a world of its own and gets out of date faster than the wikis, so links back to where the server documenters and developers are most active is very helpful. </blockquote><div> I agree, keeping content fresh is difficult given how rapidly things change, especially on the forums. Generally when a solution to a problem is found on the forums, courteous posters mark it as [SOLVED] in the title. That eases searching within a forum. It also gives us a way to point users to searching a list of known solutions, rather than a general "oh, just gogle for it" or something - this can be specific to the server forum. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I brought up the idea of having an Ubuntu Server FAQ for users and sysadmins at the IRC meeting today, and thought I'd throw out some more ideas here while they're fresh. Frequent Questions about Ubuntu Server, for system administrators and users. First, I think the notion of a FAQ is familiar which is why I thought it might be useful. It also tends to get folks thinking in the terms that users and sysadmins are likely to use in google searches, which helps get google hits. At the same time, of course, we already have two wikis with related material, plus the server guide, so it may be too much to maintain. </blockquote><div> Maintenance will always be an issue, especially as releases come and go. A general FAQ which points to specific release based documentation (Server Guide) as well as the community sources (<a href="http://help.ubuntu.com">help.ubuntu.com</a>, <a href="http://wiki.ubuntu.com">wiki.ubuntu.com</a>) I think would be the best way to go forward. That being said, the FAQ should also contain generalized useful information (like using apt-get to install server software and other admin level actions), the information contained in it should be unlikely to change regardless of release (or significantly change). </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Ahh - this looks very relevant :-O It was buried in the google search I did. Perhaps if more other pages pointed to it and it were brought up-to-date that would help. <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerFaq" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerFaq</a> </blockquote><div> This would be a good starting point, there is no need to recreate the wheel, just upgrade it to steel belted. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Server Topics Differences between Ubuntu server and Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Edubuntu Kernel Documentation tasksel GUI-based server admin not webmin ebox (soon) LTSP(?) </blockquote><div> I think all of those are good topics to have, I would add CLI based server admin - manually starting / stopping services - using apt-get to install/remove XYZ server package - etc. Discovering Hardware Information - using lspci - using lshw Networking solutions - basic routing - advanced routing - QoS Possibly vendor specific information (Dell Poweredge, HP DL series, etc) </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> List of relevant HowTo's </blockquote><div> ..snip.. Most of these are created/maintained on <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Servers">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Servers</a> I think a pointer there and a description of the types of information would suffice. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> .... Another form of ubuntu documentation that often is generated as a result of user questions is ubotu factoids: <a href="http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi" target="_blank">http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi</a> They might be minded for topics, wording etc. </blockquote> <div> ..snip.. </div><div> Agreed, I will speak to you privately about how I can help you with the factoid stuff, as an output of forum support. Thanks, Michael / faulkes- </div></div>