Hi Gilbert,
I can't vouch for the stability of all that you are trying to run, but we
have pretty much standardized our Linux environment on CentOS 5.2 here and
have found it to be very stable. No issues with LDM or McIDAS to report.
32 and 64-bit systems both run fine.
CentOS is supported as far back as version 2, so I think it will be around
and supported for quite a while.
I have just installed Fedora 10 on my personal office desktop machine, but
haven't played around too much with it yet. We moved away from Fedora a
couple of years ago because we found its update cycles too aggressive and
really not fit for a "quasi"operational environment such as ours here @
UAlbany.
Cheers,
Kevin
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
Hello all,
The past several days I have installed Fedora 10 on a test machine. I
can't believe what I see.
A lot of configuration options have simply been taken away. Options to
let GDM run to let WXP make X-windowed images for GIF file generation,
login as root, and various other things---gone. I can't even get LDM to
start under the startup boot scripts. A Google search reveals loud
complaints as well that have worsened from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10.
Privately (and publicly), people have told me to switch to Centos. I've
been scared because it runs an older version of Fedora (just repackaged).
But if those choices will be taken away from me in upcoming versions of
CentOS, then what? I'm back to square one.
I'm looking for a Linux OS that can run with a configurable GDM,
Alsamixer, Icecast and darkice as a sound server for NOAA radio audio,
and how to do this while maintaining user IDs and users with shadow
passwording, etc, and run LDM, McIDAS and WXP.
Am I asking too much? Fedora 8, which I am running now, is EOL and I'm
guessing security holes will be found soon that will make my machines
hackable in the not too distant future (already noted one from NTP and
trying to figure out if that affects me). I am running F9 on my NOAAport
machine, but that doesn't require significant enough configuration changes
that stops the LDM from running at startup.
Gurus, any suggestions are greatly appreciated. All Linux options are on
the table.
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