Good meeting

[William Park]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:47:47AM -0400, Sy wrote:
> * Configuration issues -- from a single workstation scalable up to
> thousands of desktops / servers / toasters.  In particular it was
> awesome to catch wind of the evolution of tools to handle such
> abstract ideas.
> 
> * A brief mention of the configuration scalability also led to issues
> of reinstallation, updating, pseudo-cloning, and in particular some
> security issues.  "self-healing" is a nice concept, but it's nice to
> learn that there are projects which also handle the security
> capabilities of something like that -- i.e. don't just heal it, report
> on what got healed so I can learn if someone was tiptoeing around.
> Learning of this on a mass scale will be an interesting thing for
> later.

You can avoid scalability issue by going "thin-client".  Scalability
became an issue when we moved away from mainframe.  It looks like we're
going back, except with Linux this time.

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William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org>, Toronto, Canada
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