starting Fedora Server SIG

[Les Mikesell]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Les Mikesell (lesmikesell at gmail.com) said: 
>>>> It's already a bit of a black art to know what things to tweak to turn
>>>> Fedora into a server-style configuration without breaking things. And
>>>> it's growing -- in this thread I've learned about how to get the
>>>> text-mode plymouth plugin. I'm sure there's lots more.
>>> Don't worry, we made that knowledge obsolete.
>> That's the real problem...
> 
> The problem is that we listened to the complaint about solar being
> installed by default, and fixed the bug before we released?
> 

The problem is making any esoteric knowledge required and then making it 
obsolete.  If you start without any unix experience it may all look the 
same, but for someone who runs large existing server farms (and remember 
that is where the bulk of linux systems are) any change in 
administration procedures or interaction with other systems (monitoring, 
snmp management, etc.) is a big cost.  If learning the new approach 
provides some improvement and can be expected to be useful for a long 
time is may be worth it, but in general things that can't provide 
complete backwards emulation are not improvements at all.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com