The "It's Just a Desktop Distro" Problem

[Jerry Haltom]

I think this is the general old school Unix admin thing. Newer admins,
of various other OS's: Windows, OS X, don't give a damned about any of
this. Both of their SERVER OS's have Udev and HAL equivalents. Both of
their server systems have automatic hardware detection.

And this is fine. I am one of these admins.

But it's only fine until you hit the other unrelated limitations of
those OS's... when the GUI breaks on you... and you have no command line
option. Linux (hopefully) will never become like that.

And, it doesn't matter one bit whether you think it's wrong or not to
run a GUI on your server. These people get jobs done. There company's
progress. Unless they're a major airline or something, they work it
out. ;)

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 11:46 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * "jorge o. castro" 
> 
> | Conservative admins are /bastards/, you say udev, kernel 2.6, hal,
> | and dbus to a conservative server admin and they're having a heart
> | attack.
> 
> I think you hit the nail on the head here: conservative.  If you're a
> server admin, you tend to be (or become) conservative.  I think we'll
> have a lot more interest from server admins when hoary is out -- warty
> is the first release and so is something most server admins will stay
> away from.  (Heck, I'm not ubuntuizing any of my servers yet, and I'm
> one of the developers :)
> 
> You have a nice list of suggestion as well, which should be worked on,
> but I think the main reason we aren't seeing people installing Ubuntu
> en masse on servers is that it's still a bit too new.
> 
> -- 
> Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
> UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are      : :' :
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Jerry Haltom <wasabi at larvalstage.net>
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