> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Robert T. McGibbon <rmcgi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> > These are all X11, yes? pretty much any workstation will have these, >> but in general, servers won't. >> > >> > Someone on this thread suggested that that's OK -- don't expect a GUI >> package to work on a linux box without a GUI. But some of these libs might >> get used for stuff like back-end rendering, etc, so would be expected to >> work on a headless box. I think Anaconda an Canopy have gotten away with >> this because both of their user bases are primarily desktop data analysis >> type of stuff -- not web services, web servers, etc. >> >> I can only speak for myself and my team, but we use Anaconda on servers >> on a daily basis, including with libraries like matplotlib to generate >> images that are displayed over a web service. >> >> I believe this is a pretty common use case, especially with popular apps >> like Jupyter servers. >> > yup -- and Bokeh -- getting more popular -- do you put X11 on your servers? > > --
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