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
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