Server Admins: Why not Fedora?

[Simo Sorce]

On Sat, 2013-11-09 at 16:55 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 11/08/2013 08:17 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> ? really

Yes, call it minimal install or whatever, it would make creation of
virtual machines locally much faster if I do not have to download
everything from the network, but just the additional stacks I care for.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York