On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 06:21 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 09:16 +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: > > If it was a server where uptime was important then use of telinit > > would > > be appropriate. But not many folks install the proprietary nvidia > > driver > > on servers and for workstations or laptops reboots don't really > > matter. > > Describing it as bad practice is ridiculous. > > Very nice howto with the exception of the reboot advice. It is somewhat > short of ridiculous to describe unnecessary reboots as bad practice > IMHO. Newbies would be well served to see that one of the [many] great > advantages of Linux over Redmond OSs is the absence of the perpetual > reboot cycle. Rebooting for every change is way too windows-like for my > taste, and I have workstation (and server) machines that regularly go > months without a reboot in the absence of kernel updates. > For server and uptime I totally agree, but for workstations and laptops I see a couple of boots as no great shakes. I wrote the howto in 10 minutes to give a straight through way to do a good install that has the least amount of chance of side affects and geared towards the total newbie. I feel adding multiple ways of doing one thing in a howto as a way to possibly confuse. This is why I did not go into depth with telinit. I won't do the turn your workstations and laptops off when your not using them to save the planet. :-D [snip] > One other viable choice IS to use 3rd party repos, which may be easier > for a newbie as well as being consistent with frequent advice to use RPM > packages on an RPM-based system. I have had very good experience with > ATrpms nVidia kmdl packages; although I'd recommend against using Axel's > packages wholesale for a stable CentOS system. The yum includepkgs > directive is quite useful here. > Third party repos I have seen on many a mailing become a problem when the repo falls behind the latest kernel release. Indeed this method has its merits but there are a few pitfalls also. > > Should I spend more of my time writing all the possible options just > > to > > make some people happy - Not a chance, I've got plenty of other non > > and > > CentOS related work to do! > > I hear you. Perhaps someone can find time to build on this for a WiKi > article. Will take a crack at it if I can find the time. :-) > That would be good. The current one in the wiki does not really help anyone. > [other] Phil Regards Phil