Ubuntu 6.10 Server and Accessability

[Ian Pascoe]

Hi All

I recall from a posting a little while ago that Henrick suggested setting up
a Server from the normal desktop Live CD to ensure that the system had all
the accessability options built.  Over the Xmas period I hope to do the same
on my home system, and once set up it will be a headless server - ie one
without monitor, keyboard or mouse and quitely sitting in the background
doing what it must.

My questions are:

1.  The PC to be used as the server has a small HD with the storage being
provided on external USB drives.  I want to try and keep the build down to
the bare minimum to allow space for the extras - like LAMP - to be installed
and run successfully.  The question here is can I remove the Gnome desktop
but maintain the screen reading abilities for when I need to directly use
the server, ie not remotely administer it from another PC on my network?

2.  I want to have the ability to show off Ubuntu on guest machines as they
connect to my network.  I don't necessarily want to give them Live CDs but
thought it would be easier to run it something along the lines of a thin
client from the server - can this be done without too much hacking?  In
particular one of my daughters have a school provided laptop which has been
locked down by the removal of the CD drive and she quite likes Ubuntu so I
would like to give her the ability to connect to my network, still have
access to the files on her laptop, but run Ubuntu instead of XP - 

3.  A more general question.  Is the Official Ubuntu Guide going to be
re-issued for 6.10?  And if so will it be available as a PDF file (please?)?
Perhaps, some clever people could set up the book so that it automatically
gets updates at the same time as the main system.  I know that there is
extensive help within the OS but it is always nice to have a reference
available without having to boot a Ubuntu machine up specifically for that
task (I have one machine which is Ubuntu at the moment and one which is XP).

Cheers

Ian
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