Re: LUG: ncsu realm linux iso / CD - Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:16:42 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: ncsu realm linux iso / CD

From : Marhn Harvey Fullmer <mhfullme@unity.ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:16:42 -0500

Warning - incoming! Ubuntu is succeeding in winning hearts & souls towards
the desktop, at least partially due to wider device support on various
vendors HW as a *supported* OS. This could be partially due to he
"sugar-daddy" phenom of Mark Shuttlesworth saying it doesn't really have
to make a profit for 3 - 5 years, e.g., compared to Redhat's server
emphasis. If one searches for "ncsu ubuntu" there are local mirror(s) on
campus.
- Marhn Fullmer

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Jack Neely wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:02:08PM -0500, Alexander Ray wrote:
>> Speaking of the Realm project, has there been any headway at diversifying
>> the distributions?
>
> Gah...I never replied to this. Sorry.
>
> Diversifying distributions. Not really...I haven't been asked for much
> with other distributions. I know that ubuntu would be one place I'd
> like to be as well as Fedora. But there is lots of churn. I wouldn'd
> mind providing some facilities to do it, but it would need to be
> primarily in someone else's hands.
>
> One of the projects rattling around in my head is being able to deploy a
> real configuration management system, most likely Bcfg2. This may be a
> repository that we can collectively work together on to maintain what
> each realm linux distribution looks like and keep things in sync more or
> less.
>
> Of course, there are some complications to using Bcfg2 as admins need
> access to add their own configuration bits, however one group of admins
> should probably be partitioned off from another group. (A concept
> called Distributed Administration...insert system administration theory
> here.) So there is some work to do before we get there.
>
>>
>> Bryan just recently gave an informative presentation on how to get AFS set
>> up under a Debian-based system, and I know Dr. Jasper still has an AFS build
>> for Fedora.
>>
>
> Yeah...it would be great to have these more in the loop...but at least
> for Fedora, the churn normally keeps me out due to time. Like dealing
> with the recent email mess...anyone on uni44map?
>
> Jack
>
>> Where do we want to go with this? and what kind of support would we need?
>>
>> ~A
>>
>
> --
> Jack Neely <jjneely@ncsu.[redacted]>
> Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services
> Office of Information Technology, NC State University
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