[CentOS] 6.1 .iso size?

Mon Dec 5 19:56:18 UTC 2011
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 12/05/11 11:47 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Phil Dobbin<phildobbin at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>> >>>  I guarantee that there'll be 32 bit systems for a minimum of 10 more
>>>> >>>  years. Esp. in the current depression, everyone will hang onto what they
>>>> >>>  have until the boxen die, or look to die. And then there's laptops....
>>> >>  then they should stick with older software.
>> >  Not really reflective of the spirit of open source software...
> You mean you don't think there are enough current choices?   Visit
> http://www.distrowatch.com...  Or do you think they_all_  have to
> support every possible device?

indeed, that was my point.  its silly to expect the latest release of 
ENTERPRISE LINUX, a distribution clearly targeted at servers, to have to 
support every funky old box end users can throw at it.

CentOS6 works freekin' awesome on a HP DL180G6 with dual Xeon X5660's, 
48GB ram, and a SAS raid10 of 20 x 15000 rpm 146GB drives.... Seeing 
over 6000 transactions/second sustained from postgresql's pgbench with 
sufficient threads and workload multipliers.   My circa 2004 Dell 
Latitude D600 "Dothan" (Pentium-M) laptop?   I wouldn't even bother to try.


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john r pierce                            N 37, W 122
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