Warren Young wrote:
On 4/29/2014 13:17, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
I mean, this is an ENTERPRISE o/s, and that means, heavily, *servers*, and does anyone actually use wireless, or anything other than hardwired, for a server?
I think you're setting up false dichotomies here. It isn't about desktop vs server, or WiFi vs wired.
First, both CentOS and Ubuntu have server and desktop focused variants.
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Back in the days when Big Iron Unix was the biggest piece of the market, the very thing being complained about in this thread would have been touted as a great feature over inflexible desktop OSes. Multipath I/O, hot-swap disk controllers, NIC failover, etc. all happened in that world first. Is dynamic networking any different, really?
Yes. There are a lot of servers that *require* special setups - think of h/a failover systems, or, as someone mentioned, systems with multiple ports, and some of those are on/feed internal subnets. I can't see how NM can do other than mangle that.
[1] RHEL 7 is apparently going to come out in 4-6 separate editions. See [http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=08406 The article only talks about three of the editions, but I've also noticed mention elsewhere of Compute Node, Atomic Host, and Guest editions. I don't know if that's really 6 separate versions, or if I, too, am making distinctions where there are none.
I didn't see anything about "computer node", etc. Guest, I would assume, are for kiosk-type setups. Compute node... it automatically detects a GPU(s)? It comes with PBS/Torque installed? Fuse? Gluster? Ready to be joined to a cluster? I'd like to see what their definition of "compute node" is....
But thanks very much for the link - I didn't know that RC 7 is out this week....
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