Quick poll

[David A. Bandel]

Folks,

A couple of quick questions:

1.  How many of you run servers (vice desktops)?

2.  How many servers? (1, 2-10, more than 10)?

3.  How many are headless?

4.  How many run X (headless or not)?

5.  How did you install them? (Graphical install/text install, local
install/network install/internet install)
I broke network install into network and internet to allow for local
network vice internet where the repositories are all remote -- local
install is from CD/DVD or the same machine for a virtual server).

6.  Did you d/l all the CDs/DVD.  If so, what percentage of programs
did you install?



What I'm looking at here is how odd am I?  Having run Debian for so
long (even before I started w/ Caldera), I might be spoiled.  My
recent foray into FC has me wondering if any of the developers there
have any gray matter or incredible tunnel vision -- or again, is it
that everyone but me has 100Mb Internet, unlimited DVDs to burn and
throw away (very carbon), and of course all systems (even headless
servers) with Terabytes of RAM and running X (because who cares with
that much RAM)?

All my installs are text mode (FC is doing away with text mode
installs, FC 10 Beta's text mode is so borken you have to know the
secrets to get past the disk partitioning, and I expect no text mode
in FC 11).  All my installs are PXE/TFTPBOOT installs of a network
(internet) load -- mostly to limit bandwidth usage and start with a
100% up-to-date install.

I'm afraid I fail to see the sense behind installing servers with X.
I also see little sense in burning a DVD just to throw it away after 1
install and d/l a newer one 2 weeks later for another install.

Perhaps there are just too many who've started their training on M$
and can't deal with non-graphical, non-local installs.

I'm trying to wrap my head around this thinking process but it's not
making sense.  Perhaps if a few of you would answer the poll above, I
could understand better where the rest of the admins are.

If you don't want to answer in public, pls send to me directly at:
david.bandel at gmail.com.

Thanx,

David A. Bandel
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