On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Eric "Shubes" wrote: > Speaking of Centos (www.centos.org), how do you like it? > > There were many copies of it at the ASU IF, and no one seemed to know > anything about it. I should have gone online to find out. It appears to be > an unbranded version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Red Hat being the > "Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor"). I'm guessing that it's > best used as a server, and less desirable as a workstation. Yes? sorry I did not make it down -- I got waylaid Saturday. I am one of the principals of the project, with it from the beginning, and before that, as a member of the Red Hat NDA 'testers-list' team. It is indeed the strictest of the rebuild projects, in terms of staying to RH's SRPMs, built cleanly, and tested. It makes a fine desktop workstation -- I run several at multiple sites; as a server it is rock solid, and seems to love Dell Poweredge hardware. As workstations, I am on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 at the moment; my other laptop is a tiny Toshiba Portege 3490; at the office, it runs on a HP e-Vectra with Cel700/128M; another office, an old Gateway 2000 P-II/350/128M; a AMD whitebox. All installed using kickstart/anaconda. The little unit I am on natively supported an 'Apacer eStgeno AV220' USB memory stick/audio player combo. It builds everything in the DAG archive without problems (I work with him on this), as well as my archive at ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/ Just works great - no downtime getting a stable, well-populated base installed. Highly recommended. -- Russ Herrold [herrold@dhcp11 ~]$ uname -a Linux dhcp11.cambridge-wireless.lan 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL #1 Tue Apr 19 23:50:27 BST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [herrold@dhcp11 ~]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 320992 307808 13184 0 47136 77328 -/+ buffers/cache: 183344 137648 Swap: 192772 160 192612 [herrold@dhcp11 ~]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 11306168 9898020 833828 93% / /dev/hda1 101089 13874 81996 15% /boot none 160496 0 160496 0% /dev/shm [herrold@dhcp11 ~]$ procinfo Linux 2.6.9-5.0.5.EL (buildcentos@guru) (gcc 3.4.3 20041212 ) #1 1CPU [dhcp11] Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers Mem: 320992 307944 13048 0 47148 Swap: 192772 160 192612 Bootup: Sun Apr 24 23:03:27 2005 Load average: 0.47 0.37 0.41 1/90 5222 user : 11:55:45.11 51.0% page in : 0 nice : 0:50:38.41 3.6% page out: 0 system: 0:43:07.67 3.1% swap in : 0 idle : 9:26:04.98 40.3% swap out: 0 uptime: 23:24:45.94 context : 70184270 irq 0: 84291848 timer irq 8: 1 rtc irq 1: 19637 i8042 irq 10: 2 irq 2: 0 cascade [4] irq 11: 1869866 YMFPCI, uhci_hcd, ye irq 4: 8 irq 12: 185374 i8042 irq 5: 821617 eth0 irq 14: 100386 ide0 irq 6: 7 irq 15: 757009 ide1 irq 7: 5 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss