Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:21:12 +0200 From: Marian Hettwer <MH@kernel32.de> To: Dave Fazio <dave.fazio@annulet.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new FreeBSD-webpage Message-ID: <43469268.9050101@kernel32.de> In-Reply-To: <43465E07.1000709@annulet.com> References: <b41c75520510060225h2eeecdd8w@mail.gmail.com> <di2s9q$4ss$1@sea.gmane.org> <43455D3E.5040007@mbnet.fi> <1128619628.83589.7.camel@station-20> <434627FF.2000002@kernel32.de> <43465E07.1000709@annulet.com>
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Hej Dave, Dave Fazio wrote: > Totally agree and understand your point -- a graphical install option > would mainly appeal to desktop users. But let's be honest; considering > the competition install base of Red Hat, Mac OS X, SUN, and (ech!) > Windows, the day of GUI deskop'd servers is here now; Purests hate it Well, RedHat has a graphical installer, but redhat also has a tool called kickstart for automatic installations. So they have basically both :) Sun has something similar for Solaris, I forgot the name, though. > sure, but it's a fact, and shouldn't be discounted altogether as an > option for modern day server configurations. > should be IMO still non-graphical as long as you have big serverfarms like Database and Webservers. I'm managing approx 1000 servers with some colluegues. Unluckily it's Debian GNU/Linux systems, but at least it's an automatic installation done via FAI (google for FAI Debian). I'd prefer FreeBSD, though. And I know that there are some tutorials howto do an automagic installation of FreeBSD. > There's no point to digress more on this subject now, but FreeBSD is in > my opinion the best of *all* general purpose OSs -- But to properly > manage a FreeBSD (ports/packages,source builds, etc), the devil is > definitely in the details. Apple has smoothed our these details in > short order -- why can't we? I don't know about MacOS X as a server. I'm just using it on my PowerBook for daily work :) best regards, Marian
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