[CoLoCo] Ubuntu Server: Good Concept, Flawed Execution

[Dave Vanderploeg]

Thanks Neal, sounds cool. I'll read up on ebox.

Dave

On Nov 20, 2007 3:22 PM, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:14:42PM -0700, Dave Vanderploeg wrote:
> > Her arguments against it don't seem particularly strong, just doesn't
> like it
> > in general. I do think the install should offer a chance to install one
> or more
> > GUI's. I know server guru's will think thats stupid, but it could be a
> big plus
> > to newbies. Just offer gnome with xterminal and firefox, and very few
> other
> > programs by default.
>
> The approach the server team is taking is indeed to provide a gui, but
> to avoid the enormous and dangerous extra baggage that X11, to say
> nothing of gnome, would pull in.  And most server admins don't want to
> have to go sit in front of a server to configure it.
>
> The current approach is to support gui management over the web via
> ebox.
>
> Of course anyone can easily install X11 or Gnome or KDE or whatever if
> they like if it meets their needs.
>
> Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
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