CPU Frequency Scaling

[Jon Nettleton]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 12:09 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:59:06AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > > knows, maybe the system administrator can just tweak a few settings in
> > > > the Fedora Directory Server and the changes gets propagated out to his
> > > > servers. I really think that's the user experience we want; not some
> > > > set of human-editable configuration files in /etc.
> > > Who is "we" here, though?
> > Should be evident: only speaking for myself, of course, hoping to
> > influence the Fedora Project otherwise I wouldn't be posting this to the
> > development list of the Fedora Project, would I? It's a meritocracy
> > after all isn't it? 
> 
> No, I didn't mean that, sorry, and I definitely don't want to take the
> conversation in *that* direction. 
> 
> I'm just not convinced that not being able to ssh in to a server and edit
> some config files but rather have to figure out how to tweak the
> policy-daemon-of-the-month is the user experience a large segment of "we"
> wants at all. Human-editable config files are a huge strength. Using a
> policy daemon may be part of the answer, but it should be able to get its
> configuration from something that can be fixed with vi.
> 

I definitely agree with this point of view.

Jon