Re: Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS (was: What happened to 6.1)

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/15/2011 05:23 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Timothy Murphy<gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Incidentally, I don't really understand
>>> what is meant by the term "desktop" nowadays.
>>> I always think of it as a contrast to laptop.
>>
>> 'Desktop' is in contrast to 'server'.  On a server, you only reboot to
>> load a new kernel and you never use the console display, rarely change
>
> Oh, I dunno - it's not infrequently that I have to plug in a
> monitor-on-a-stick....

Supermicro boards come with IPMI on-board these days so you can do all that 
work that you previously did standing next to the server from the confines 
of your cozy home. This is even more useful when you server is sitting in a 
rack in a cold, noisy, dry collocation facility.

Regards,
   Dennis
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