On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 19:38 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
From: Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu
Referencing SL3 and CentOS 3 (as I haven't run SL4 as yet) there were some scientific applications and some Java stuff, eclipse for one,
You do understand the redistribution issues with Java, correct? It's a Sun problem (a typical thorn for Red Hat in general), not a Red Hat one.
Righto ... no JRE redistributes in CentOS ... that is not allowed :)
They also have mp3 stuff ... also not allowed :)
part of cluster suite for another, included. Lessee, https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/30x/features/ is the reference. GFS, Eclipse, Cluster Suite, OpenAFS, ksh93, a set of 'tweak' RPMs (my favorite being the serial console tweak RPM).
Red Hat is pushing to get GFS in the stock kernel. They bought out Sistina for a reason, to keep it GPL. These things don't happen overnight. ;-> GFS was introduced as an add-on, and probably will until it is in the stock kernel -- Red Hat is trying to avoid heavily patching the kernel nowdays (for various reasons).
For CentOS-3.x you can get GFS (and RH ClusterSuite) here:
http://bender.it.swin.edu.au/centos-3/
(there is no GFS/RHCS for RHEL-4 (or CentOS-4) yet)
As far as OpenAFS, I assume you mean the server? Or you don't like Red Hat's included client in the kernel? As always, make a Bugzilla request if you want something.
For SL4, the doc is at https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/4x/features/ and includes fewer addons. OpenAFS is the biggest of these, I guess.
And I too have deployed OpenAFS. The server is 100% userspace, so it shouldn't be too difficult to get it included, at least in Fedora Core (possibly the next RHEL5).
OpenAFS: I'll have to look at the license that it is released under ... that might be able to be in Extras ... someone want to maintain it :)
Once the cluster suite and eclipse are available they probably will be rolled in.
When RHGFS / Eclipse / RHCS are released for RHEL-4 they will be available for CentOS-4.
Pine also is in the SL dists.
Pico/Pine also changed licenses awhile back and is considered "non-free." Nano replaced Pico, can't remember what replaced Pine.
Correct ... Pine is non-free license, won't be built for CentOS-4 :)