Fedora Server Spin

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Jan 12 21:30:34 UTC 2007


On Friday 12 January 2007 15:05, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> So, how do you expect this to actually be useful to someone who's new to
> Fedora and Linux?  There's an absolutely huge number of server admins
> who aren't "unix geeks" that could be a very good target for the Fedora
> server spin.  But they're not going to know about ssh, or X forwarding
> or anything like that.  Instead, they're going to get through the
> install[1], be confronted with a login prompt on a black screen and say
> "what is this crap?".
>
> And that's ignoring questions about supporting people in other parts of
> the world who's text can't even be displayed on the console.

Then we get into the realm of a Desktop spin with Server stuff added.  Not a 
Server spin.  If that's what "we" want out of a Server spin, so be it, I 
wouldn't want to call it a "Server" spin.  We'd be somewhere close to Core 
again.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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