Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Gerry Creager wrote:
Look at www.centos.org for "what's CentOS?" It's RedHat Enterprise with the
serial numbers scratched off. Tends to be stable for up to 2 years before a
new release. Which also means it can get stale sometimes. Security fixes are
put out as needed, but radical changes are held down.
Which is both good and bad. What if a package I use isn't available?
I need things like Icecast, Darkice to stream web audio. I can't just run
GEMPAK, and everything just works(tm) with Redhat, until it crashes. :-)
Tarballs are your friend, and there are a couple of other repositories
that you can use that have a bunch of the precompiled extras.
I tend to single-purpose my LDM/Gempak systems, so I don't ever have to
stream audio:-)
Build your system out with 2 physical drives and allow OS to build on one
(usually the smaller) and keep important data on the other one. Tell the
installer to only put Linux on the smaller drive. After you've built the
system modify /etc/fstab for appropriate mount points.
gerry
I was just told that the OS has problems with that hard drive at 3
GB/sec and that I should jumper it down to 1.5 GB/sec. Hmmm...
Fiber channel or SAS?
gerry
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