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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ has roots in the mid-1990s. Prior to then, even sites with a large number of
users like universities and large ISPs had relatively few Unix systems. Each of
those systems was generally what today's operations community calls a
"snowflake system" (after the phrase "a precious and unique snowflake"). They
were carefully hand-built to purpose, rarely replaced, and providing a unique
were carefully hand-built to purpose, rarely replaced, and provided a unique
set of services to their users.
The rise of free Unix-like OSes and commodity x86 hardware, coupled with the
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ would be convergent over time rather than strictly imperative shell or perl
scripting. (.. todo:: a specific example might help)
In the early 2000s, the systems administration community began to focus more
intently on configuration management as distributed systems became both more
intensely on configuration management as distributed systems became both more
complex and more common. A series of LISA papers and an explosion in the number
and sophistication of open-source tools emerged. Some highlights and background
reading: