starting Fedora Server SIG

[Les Mikesell]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> Much of the work going from NM 0.6 -> 0.7 has been around things like
> multiple interfaces up at once, static configs and system settings.  All
> of which are things which matter far more for your typical server than a
> desktop.
>
>   
What typical server tasks aren't possible without NM?  Will it do vlan 
trunk management making it possible to individually restrict users, 
applications, or virtual machines to specific vlans?  Will it do dynamic 
multicast routing?   If it offers new features instead of just  a 
different way of configuring that things already possible the change 
might make sense.

> Lots of things in a modern system are far removed from the stuff a unix
> sysadmin has traditionally dealt with.  That doesn't make it necessarily
> "bad".  And as Seth pointed out, this "all new is bad" or "all new is
> good" dichotomy is a part of the problem
>
>   
But if a system claiming to be new/better can't provide more or less 
exact emulation of the system it wants to replace, it probably really 
isn't better.

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   Les Mikesell
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