----- "Jon Aquilina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ive been thinking bout building an easy to use cluster distro based on > kubuntu where would the ideal place for me to start. the desktop > interface the kernel?
As others have said I'd suggest that rather than doing that you settle on a very basic install of your favourite distro (bearing in mind that if you want to run a commercial ISV's application you might hit issues if you don't run something that looks like RHEL or SLES) and then add a repository on top of it yourself. This is a strategy that some of the Scientific Linux developers discussed on their development list early last year - the idea was mooted to rebase on CentOS [1] and then provide repositories that added the extras and tweaks that SL does. In the end they chose to carry on as before for SL5, but I got the impression that the idea might resurface for SL6 [2] (though there's been no mention since). [1] - http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0702&L=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-DEVEL&P=R2041&I=-3 [2] - http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0703&L=SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-DEVEL&P=R522&I=-3 cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
