[PLUG] RHEL, CentOS, SL

2011-05-13 Thread Keith Lofstrom
I run Scientific Linux, SL, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone. The most widely used clone of RHEL is CentOS, but there may be troubles in that community. We are getting about 5 refugees a day from CentOS showing up on our mailing list and forums. Any CentOS users here? I'm hoping the tales of

Re: [PLUG] RHEL, CentOS, SL

2011-05-13 Thread chris (fool) mccraw
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:14, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: I run Scientific Linux, SL, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone. The most widely used clone of RHEL is CentOS, but there may be troubles in that community.  We are getting about 5 refugees a day from CentOS showing up on our

Re: [PLUG] RHEL, CentOS, SL

2011-05-13 Thread Larry Brigman
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: I run Scientific Linux, SL, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone. The most widely used clone of RHEL is CentOS, but there may be troubles in that community. We are getting about 5 refugees a day from CentOS showing up on

Re: [PLUG] RHEL, CentOS, SL

2011-05-13 Thread alan
I run Scientific Linux, SL, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone. The most widely used clone of RHEL is CentOS, but there may be troubles in that community. We are getting about 5 refugees a day from CentOS showing up on our mailing list and forums. Any CentOS users here? I'm hoping the tales

Re: [PLUG] RHEL, CentOS, SL

2011-05-13 Thread Ali Corbin
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: I run Scientific Linux, SL, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone. The most widely used clone of RHEL is CentOS, but there may be troubles in that community. We are getting about 5 refugees a day from CentOS showing up on

Re: [PLUG] RHEL, CentOS, SL

2011-05-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 13 May 2011, Keith Lofstrom wrote: Any CentOS users here? I'm hoping the tales of woe are overblown, and CentOS is still healthy and moving forwards. If something happens to SL, I would rather not have RHEL as the only practical alternative. My best understanding of the issues

Re: [PLUG] RHEL, CentOS, SL

2011-05-13 Thread MJang
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 12:42 -0700, Larry Brigman wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Keith Lofstrom kei...@kl-ic.com wrote: I run Scientific Linux, SL, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone. The most widely used clone of RHEL is CentOS, but there may be troubles in that community. We are

Re: [PLUG] RHEL, CentOS, SL

2011-05-13 Thread Russell Senior
alan == alan a...@clueserver.org writes: alan The versions used are OLD. (As they are in RHEL.) There are alan features in SSH I would like to use on my home system, but the alan version used by CentOS is about 5 years old. If I wanted to use alan out of date, bitrotten software I would

Re: [PLUG] RHEL, CentOS, SL

2011-05-13 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 01:07:59PM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: Second, for CentOS developers, 100% binary compatibility is required for a release. That means that every library and executable will have exactly the same linking and dependencies as RHEL. Running ldd against a library on

[PLUG] RHEL/CENTOS/SL 5x, Firefox 4 and libstdc++

2011-03-26 Thread Keith Lofstrom
The firefox developers, in their reciprocally infinite wisdom, are pushing Firefox 4, which requires libstdc++.so.6 with GLIBCXX_3.4.9 . The available libstdc++.i386 0:4.1.2-50.el5 RPM for RHEL 5x, CENTOS 5x, and SL 5x contains only GLIBCXX_3.4.8 . You can read more about it here: