On Feb 13, 2008 7:25 PM, Neal McBurnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd suggest collecting the forum input on the wiki and pointing folks > at the wiki for faqs. Often forum input ends up in a world of its own > and gets out of date faster than the wikis, so links back to where the > server documenters and developers are most active is very helpful. >
I agree, keeping content fresh is difficult given how rapidly things change, especially on the forums. Generally when a solution to a problem is found on the forums, courteous posters mark it as [SOLVED] in the title. That eases searching within a forum. It also gives us a way to point users to searching a list of known solutions, rather than a general "oh, just gogle for it" or something - this can be specific to the server forum. > I brought up the idea of having an Ubuntu Server FAQ for users and > sysadmins at the IRC meeting today, and thought I'd throw out some > more ideas here while they're fresh. > > Frequent Questions about Ubuntu Server, for system administrators and > users. > > First, I think the notion of a FAQ is familiar which is why I thought > it might be useful. It also tends to get folks thinking in the terms > that users and sysadmins are likely to use in google searches, which > helps get google hits. > > At the same time, of course, we already have two wikis with related > material, plus the server guide, so it may be too much to maintain. > Maintenance will always be an issue, especially as releases come and go. A general FAQ which points to specific release based documentation (Server Guide) as well as the community sources (help.ubuntu.com, wiki.ubuntu.com) I think would be the best way to go forward. That being said, the FAQ should also contain generalized useful information (like using apt-get to install server software and other admin level actions), the information contained in it should be unlikely to change regardless of release (or significantly change). > Ahh - this looks very relevant :-O It was buried in the google search > I did. Perhaps if more other pages pointed to it and it were brought > up-to-date that would help. > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerFaq > This would be a good starting point, there is no need to recreate the wheel, just upgrade it to steel belted. > Server Topics > > Differences between Ubuntu server and Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Edubuntu > Kernel > Documentation > tasksel > GUI-based server admin > not webmin > ebox (soon) > LTSP(?) > I think all of those are good topics to have, I would add CLI based server admin - manually starting / stopping services - using apt-get to install/remove XYZ server package - etc. Discovering Hardware Information - using lspci - using lshw Networking solutions - basic routing - advanced routing - QoS Possibly vendor specific information (Dell Poweredge, HP DL series, etc) List of relevant HowTo's > ..snip.. Most of these are created/maintained on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Servers I think a pointer there and a description of the types of information would suffice. .... > > Another form of ubuntu documentation that often is generated as a > result of user questions is ubotu factoids: > > http://bots.ubuntulinux.nl/factoids.cgi > > They might be minded for topics, wording etc. > ..snip.. Agreed, I will speak to you privately about how I can help you with the factoid stuff, as an output of forum support. Thanks, Michael / faulkes-
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