Comparison to Workstation Technical Specification

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 02/25/2014 03:58 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Stephen Gallagher (sgallagh at redhat.com) said:
>>> === Display manager ===
>>> 
>>> gdm will be used as the display manager. It is responsible for
>>>  showing a login screen on each seat. It will be able to
>>> launch both X-based sessions and Wayland sessions.
>>> 
>>> Desktop environments are expected to make themselves known as
>>> an available session option on the login screen by dropping a 
>>> .desktop file into /usr/share/xsessions (or its wayland 
>>> equivalent).
>>> 
>>> Other facilities provided by the display manager include screen
>>>  unlock authentication and user switching.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Display manager is irrelevant to the Server product.
> 
> Admittedly, this is rehashing a bit of an old discussion, but we
> have (RHEL) stats that somewhere around 20% of server installs
> install a desktop.
> 
> If Fedora Server wants to explicitly not serve those users, it's
> worth noting specifically. If it wants to serve them by offering
> some sort of environment that boots into just cockpit + terminal +
> web browser, it's worth specifying the requirements there.
> 

"7. The user must be able to install and manage Fedora Server in a
headless mode where the display framework is inactive." [1]


That being said, Cockpit itself has a terminal emulator built-in as
well. So ideally there's no reason to install a graphical environment
on the system. You should be able to just connect to it from any
browser and operate from there.


Also, I want to make it relatively easy for a Fedora Server install to
also essentially just "push a button" and also have a fully-functional
Workstation. That should be a non-default case.



[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server/Product_Requirements_Document#Use_Cases

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