So desktop 14.04.2 is riddled with this annoying issue related to the transition from tasks to metapackages for X. The release team is working on the fix for ubiquity, but that's not universally applicable to debian-installer. This is, of course, no issue for server, but it is for Lubuntu, the only other team using debian-installer. We use this to support the low-resource desktop users that LXDE is well suited for. We could consider netboot/mini.iso but this requires a good Internet connection, Ethernet, is prone to errors the standard installers are not, and is terribly unfriendly for the new user of Linux. Do you know ubiquity requires more memory than Lubuntu does?!
That being said, I'm looking for a solution that would allow us to stay as standard as possible with the rest of the Ubuntu family. I was thinking one easy way to solve this would be to create a simple text-only (and thus, low resource usage) front-end to ubiquity. Then Lubuntu, Server, and everyone else could use the same thing and any issue affecting any product would affect all of them. We are very limited in developers and I can't expect them to implement such a solution, but I'm hoping that the much larger Server Team might be interested in such a project. I'm sure we could rope in people from across the family, too, but certainly they lack the motivation that Lubuntu and perhaps server has. Thoughts, comments, concerns, issues, suggestions? -- @wxl | http://polka.bike Lubuntu Release Manager, Head of QA Ubuntu PPC Point of Contact Ubuntu Oregon LoCo Team Leader Eugene Unix & GNU/Linux User Group Co-Organizer -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
