[ale] LOPSA - League of Professional System Administrators.

[Jerry Yu]

Thanks, Alex, for the reminder. My past google searches often led me to
relevant threads in dell-linux-poweredge list. I had told myself to
subscribe it later, then forgot about it after I worked out a solution using
the hints/clues from some ancient thread.
Not this time though, I just subscribed and will soon have my personal
archive inside gmail :)

On 10/3/06, Alex LeDonne <aledonne.listmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/3/06, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> > IMHO It isn't that there is a Sysadmin list void.  It is that there is
> > an enterprise Linux list void.  The issue seems to be the evolving
> > nature of Linux.  For a long time it was not used for enterprise
> > purposes (and even desktop use was typically limited in organizations to
> > UNIX admins and other techno-geeks and outside organizations by
> > hobbyists and those same techno-geeks.  Now it's starting to fill
> > business niches in enterprises so more and more "professional" admins
> > are using it in business.  They'd like to have a place to pose questions
> > regarding their enterprise use yet not wade through the hobbyists/newbie
> > posts.
> [snip]
> > What's worse is that even the hardware vendors such as Dell that say
> > they "support Linux" don't really have good support for Linux.   It
> > often leaves me with either spending lots of time figuring out a
> > solution or abandoning the idea of obtaining one.
>
>
> Well, in the case of Dell, at least they support a "Linux on Dell"
> community. When I adminned RH on PowerEdge, I found the Dell
> Linux-PowerEdge mailing list IMMENSELY valuable. (
> http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo ) I don't think I would even
> try to use a PERC under linux without reading up on that list archive.
>
> I suspect that enterprise linux questions are not best posed to a
> geographically-oriented list (like [ale]), but to vendor- or distro-
> oriented lists. Similarly, I personally wouldn't pose a mythtv
> question to Linux-Precision, even if I was putting it together with a
> Precision workstation.
>
> -Alex
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