Any Chance someone might be able to bring a set of CentOS CDs to today's Westside meeting? One of the PLUGers suggested a Westside meeting where we step thru an actual install. I thought for next months (May) Westside meeting that might be do-able and thought CentOS might be a very good experience. George > From: R P Herrold > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > Subject: Re: plug] CEntOS (was: Re: frys $200 box and m$?) > > 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. > ... Snip --------------------------------------------------- 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