On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:50:41PM +0100, Dan HorĂ¡k wrote:
There were many discussions in the past few days and weeks about the
orientation Fedora currently has. It is a fact that currently
Fedora is primarily desktop oriented.
We agree that Desktop is important part of the system, it is highly
visible to the public and large number of Fedora users. But we also see
a large number of Fedora and CentOS users and RHEL customers with very
specific needs and demands. We can not omit the server fundamentals that
later create a successful enterprise product and in our opinion a formal
entity must exist to coordinate these efforts.
That's why we started work on establishing the Fedora Server SIG. The
draft is available at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DanHorak/ServerSIG
Any constructive ideas are welcome :-)
We discussed LSB and plymouth so let's start discussion about NetworkManager.
That tool is used by anaconda in F10 and is installed by default. In one
case it is nice tool for desktop but it still can't satisfy server demands
and is generally unusable and annoying.
Crucial thing is static IPs which NM can't handle. Thus I think it
should not be part of core system. Many people says that servers will
be integrated with NM and after that they will dynamically react when
network interfaces go up or down. It will be nice feature but it is
simply to early to put NM to core system.
Btw could anyone explain me what is the reason why NM is installed by
default? (make sure I'm not talking about desktops)
Regards, Adam
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Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.