Fedora 8

[Adam Hawes]

> I think once they reach that level then management have to support it,
> with something like buying DR hardware that you could at least plan an
> upgrade path on.  What's their plan in the face of catastrophic failure
> if it's mission critical?

Plans?  We don't need no stinkin' plans :)

At the moment the current plan is "it won't fail in the short term".  We have 
two shiny new servers on order which will mitigate the failure risk better in 
the long term.

> I'm starting to think seriously about the "roll your own" option
> with something like Linux From Scratch.  Something I need to look
> into when I have spare time up my sleeves (ha!)

I looked at LFS (and Gentoo).  LFS seemed like a lot of extra work for very 
little gain and Gentoo didn't tickle my fancy.

With all of that building and staying ahead with your packages I don't imagine 
you have all that much free time ;)

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