Alice Wonder wrote:
As far as customizing CentOS / Fedora for server vs desktop vs laptop vs whatever, to me that is a moot issue.
In the server environment you almost certainly are using a virtual machine, and to use a virtual machine you create an image.
What precisely do you mean by "the server environment"? I run a number of home servers on HP MicroServers. Evidently this is not a "server environment" in your view. The only sense I can give to your phrase is "a system run by one or more paid sysadmins".