On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 09:20:01PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 17:42 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > > So, now one has to use kickstart, which is not all that simple, and has > > to be set up somewhere, to put in some BASIC Unix function. All to > > support the inexperienced user who will probably be more inconvenienced > > than endangered by this anyway. > > > It's just more work for the sysadmin. > > I'd rather expect any sysadmin worth their salt would be deploying via > scripts, not interactively. Which is what kickstart is - it's just the > way you do a scripted install. Not necessarily. There are all sorts of reasons one wouldn't, for example, small companies with widely varying needs in individual servers. Regardless, it's all good, and as I said, I'm a hypocrite, only complaining about catering to the inexperienced when it gets in my way and reaping the benefits of it. I do think that RH puts too much Fedora desktop oriented stuff in, almost without any thought, but like MS, RH is pretty deeply entrenched in the enterprise, so there will be grumbling, but I doubt they'll lose business. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Willow: Diana, Hecate, I hereby license thee to depart. Goddess of creatures great and small, I conjure thee to withdraw Amy: (squeak) Buffy: Maybe we should get her one of those wheel thingies. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test