[PLUG] serial console administration

[Carla Schroder]

Is anyone using the serial console for more than the occasional 
fix-of-last-resort? Since servers are presumably networked via Ethernet, why 
would you routine server administration over a poky ole serial line?

Plus I eavesdropped shamelessly on a conversation about updating a Fedora box 
via the serial console, and it took an entire weekend. Yet the person who did 
it thought it was the greatest thing since twist-tops. Soooo... again, if 
Ethernet is working, why would do you this?

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