On 4/29/2014 13:17, m.roth at 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. RHEL7 will make this separation even clearer[1], though it seems the reason has more to do with keeping the ISOs to single layer DVD size than because they intend for the Workstation/Client and Server editions to functionally diverge. Second, as to whether there are servers that use WiFi, of course there are. Print servers, embedded systems, media servers, IP cameras... Lots of Linux servers use WiFi. 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? ---- [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.