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 -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage: www.cs.vu.nl/~mwagena -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
