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 <herrold@owlriver.com>
> 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.
>
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