Server Admins: Why not Fedora?

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Fri Nov 8 20:17:20 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-11-07 at 22:59 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 11/07/2013 10:15 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > I agree the current one is unlikely to continue to exist, but a server
> > one could be of use. Have all the curated application stacks available
> > locally could be useful for some server admin cases. Possibly not
> > enough to make it worthwhile, but not sure it's worth dismissing at
> > this point.
> 
> Personally I dont see the usecase for us being delivering ( thus 
> maintaining ) an "DVD iso" since it's pretty safe to say that the 
> administrator will have a network connection but instead we should focus 
> our energy on improving/shaping the netinstall iso to our needs.
> ( perhaps a cobbler/spacewalk/repo server should be the first 
> application(stack)?)

I can see a DVD for the base OS, just enough to bring up network and a
bare bones application to proceed and install one of the three flavors,
so that you do not have to download all the base OS all the time.

Simo.

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