Thank you for the information. Is RedHat Enterprise Linux WS Version 3 supported?
Thanks, Patrick Johnson Integrated Media Systems 1260 N. Fee Ana Anaheim, CA 92807 office: 714-579-4100 cell: 714-225-0666 pjohn...@imsav.com -----Original Message----- From: Ivan R. Judson [mailto:jud...@mcs.anl.gov] Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 7:57 PM To: Patrick Johnson; ag-i...@mcs.anl.gov Subject: RE: AGN OS Hi Patrick, You should probably not consider building a node with 4 computers as is described in that document. Notice the document should be dated sometime in 1999/2000, in four years hardware has significantly changed. The typical configuration that seems to work well for most people these days is two compuers, one running XP and serving the display (and sometimes audio) functionality, and the other running some variant of linux providing the video capture (and more commonly also the audio) functionality. There are choices for which linux to run, the supported variants (also on the agtk website you found) are Fedora Core, Slackware, Gentoo, and Debian. The reason the video capture box is still better to build as linux these days has to do with the driver support in the software we use to capture and transmit video. It works more reliably and with less use configuration and tweaking on linux systems than windows. For "support building this system" you're on your own. This is an open source project, we give you the software, documentation, manuals and access to a community (via the ag-tech mailing list) for free. We can't really afford to offer you more than that ;-). --Ivan > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ag-i...@mcs.anl.gov > [mailto:owner-ag-i...@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Patrick Johnson > Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 4:48 PM > To: ag-i...@mcs.anl.gov > Subject: AGN OS > > I've been tasked with building an Access Grid Node. Reading > the Access Grid Hardware Specification by Robert Olson, it > recommends building a Display computer running windows 2000 > pro, a Video Capture computer running an AG distribution of > Red Hat Linux, an Audio Capture computer running the AG linux > distribution, and a control computer running windows 98. > > > > I was looking a the website > http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/do wnload.html and notice that there was support for Windows XP. > > > > My questions are . Is there any reason I shouldn't use > Windows XP and can I use XP in place of Red Hat? > > > > Whom should I contact for support building this system? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Patrick Johnson > > Integrated Media Systems > > 1260 N. Fee Ana > > Anaheim, CA 92807 > > office: 714-579-4100 > > cell: 714-225-0666 > > pjohn...@imsav.com > > > >
