[ale] Linux Server distros

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 17:06 -0400, Benjie wrote:
> Why so much resistance to LVM?  Volume management is a very mature and
> mainstream technology present in most *nix.

It can be hard to setup. For most people it is not needed. Also, RedHat
had a bad implementation back around RH9 that caused MUCH grief and
scared off many people.

A new RH based install handles LVM very well now.
> 
> Benjie
> 
> On 7/25/06, Chris Ricker <kaboom at oobleck.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> >
> > > Here's what I doing:
> > >
> > > I am setting up a few vmware server servers.  On the base install I
> > > don't need anything that vmware server doesn't need.  I don't
> > > particularly need LVM, but when using a RedHat distro (or derivative)
> > > LVM (and several other totally unnecessary things) must exist for the
> > > base install to exist. <- F**KING CRAZY!  I don't need nfs, or nfs libs,
> > > hotplug (it's freaking server!), USB (who uses USB mice/drives/etc on a
> > > server?), DHCP (argh!).  It just amazes me that in this day and age of
> > > using Linux on so many _servers_, it requires that the operator have a
> > > team of engineers to re-engineer a "professional" distribution in order
> > > to use it in their environment.
> >
> > I normally install RHEL / Centos / Fedora using something like
> >
> > %packages --nobase --resolvedeps
> > @Core
> > yum
> > openssh-server
> > openssh-clients
> > postfix
> >
> > No nfs in sight. There is still LVM, but hey, I use LVM
> >
> > As for USB, hotplug, etc. I haven't bought an x86 server in over a year
> > that wasn't USB-only. PS/2 is dead, dead, dead. Your VAR just hasn't
> > gotten the word yet ;-)
> >
> > later,
> > chris
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