On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Luiz Felipe Martins
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Please send me any comments, suggestions.
On page 1 you say "Notice that the virtual machine runs the 32 bit
version of the OS. I tried using the
64 bit version but it didn't work." Perhaps you should change the pdf
to say that it didn't work *for you*, put a footnote about what
"doesn't work means". I suggest this, since 64-bit Ubuntu definitely
works very well under VMware on both OS X and Linux. I've set it up
numerous times recently on a wide range of hardware/software. It's
definitely a better way to go performance wise (and memory wise) than
32-bit, especially for a server application.
One remark regarding the "Console Plugin". VMware doesn't have a
version of it for OS X. Thus you might note that if the person
following your directions is using OS X as a client they are out of
luck.
I'm about 99% sure that when you install ubuntu it will not ever
install openssh by default; I think you always have to install
openssh-server (as you explain how to do on page 4).
You can actually just do
notebook(address="", port=8000, open_viewer=False)
and the notebook will listen on all ports, including the eth0 address.
This is documented in notebook?
On page 6 you suggest directly running sage-python. This is a very
(very very) bad idea. That script sage-python should only ever be
run when the Sage environment variables are all correctly setup first.
The sage script does just that. If you want to run sage's python
straight, do "sage -python" (note the space).
On page 7, you say you can't use the server_pool and worksheet user.
If you login as the user that will run the sage notebook server and
type
$ ssh worksh...@localhost
what happens? Have you setup ssh keys correctly? You should
either figure out what you're doing wrong with server_pool, or put a
huge clear disclaimer that one can easily take down the whole server
and delete all user and configuration data with just 9 keystrokes.
Thanks for posting this here and not just posting it randomly on the
web without asking for feedback. I think one of the things that can
make using open source software (e.g., installing Linux on a laptop)
very frustrating and confusing for users is lots of tutorials that are
full of wrong or partial information. If you fix your pdf according
to the comments above, you'll be doing your part to prevent that.
-- William
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