Red Hat annouced a while ago that they were also taking out "server features" from the personal systems.

I don't have the specifics of what release, though.

Personally, I've worked with Linux since 6.2, and I've always assumed that there would be a "core" of RPMs that would include server components like DHCP, Apache, etc. and that these would always be in the base distribution.

But again, the same thing happened with OS/2 and Windows NT. As the software moved from release 2 to release 3 and release 3 to release 4, the details of how the software actually worked became less and less exposed to user. Messages that used to be on-screen get neatly hidden away into logs (if at all), where only the sysadmin will know where to find them.

I guess it's just true with all software.