Fedora Server Spin

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jan 12 18:27:09 UTC 2007


On 1/12/07, David Lutterkort <dlutter at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 10:34 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> The thing we are missing is some sort of agreement on what the server
> spin should be: I think everybody agrees that the minimal install you
> describe should be possible. The question is: what does the admin do
> afterwards ? If they install whatever they need over the newtwork why
> bother with a server spin to begin with ? We can just fiddle with @core
> a little and give them a kickstart file that produces the minimal
> install.

Whats the difference between a minimal install and the 'single cd' spin?

>
> But what about a customized comps file ? Is that desirable for a server
> spin ? Absolutely; and to arrive at that we do need to talk about
> including TurboGears and lots of other packages that people use on their
> servers.
>

We'll never appeal to everyone with the Server CD but we could stick
some common tools on there as we need.  Honestly though I think the
'single' CD is really what most of the server guys are looking for
anyway.

             -Mike




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