Sorry, I have no way of testing the centos install on my geode, because it is an embedded board without disk I/O ports. On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Will Langford <unfies at gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:07 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> > wrote: >> >> Will Langford wrote: >>> >>> If Sally can paint a house in 4 hours and John can paint a house in 6 >>> hours... >> >> Answer: 42 ? > > Heh. Actually 2.4. > >>> >>> No, seriously. Given the .... 'target' of CentOS as a RHEL alternative, >>> is it necessarily appropriate to attempt to support such hardware ? While I >>> can understand some energy density benefits of running an LX800, I just >>> personally don't see it as fitting with the nature of CentOS. >> >> That is indeed a very good question. Let me answer that in a few hours >> time when I am on a real computer, not over NX from my phone to the computer >> :D > > I actually look forward to the answer. While I see linux or netbsd (etc) as > a good swiss army knife base for alot of hardware, I don't think targeted > distro's should attempt to swiss army knife it -- ya then get excessive > complexity or limited features due to a low lowest-common-denominator :). > >>> >>> Note: I'm pretty much just a quiet outsider and just a user for the most >>> part... so my opinion carries no weight. >> >> No such thing, if you are using it - you automatically become a part of >> the community and voices are good. > > This is the 'developers' list :). As such, I'd imagine it'd be more for > people working on advancing the distro heh. My only experience with CentOS > is remote dedicated servers -- I don't believe I've actually ever manually > installed it. I've worked with 4.x and 5.0... have yet to experience 5.1. > So far I've been very very happy with CentOS in general. My 4.x box got > violated a couple times, even rooted heh :(. The 5.0 installation seems to > be doing much better. I've had some issues with getting up to date ant/java > stuff for WowzaMediaServer/Red5, but all in all, I'd say I'm really happy > with 5.0. > Here at work, we still use RH9.0 on production servers that go into the > field (not broke, dont fix it). If we ever need to do a major update due to > hardware limitations or similar... and a new distro makes sense, it'll be > CentOS (gotta love being the top of decision making hehehe)... it's been > rock solid on my remote machines (other than the poor 4.x box heh). > -Will > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > -- Marco Casaroli Inatel