I have to come out of lurkdom on this subject. I am one of those who has 3 working systems running from live CD installations and with the exception of obvious .ini file setup and a tweak to disable SMI I am using it "out of the box". I have been using EMC since the late 90's when it was on Red Hat. I am presently using 2.3.6 on 8.04 from the live CD and If I must, would be happy to use it just this way for several more years.
If there had been a requirement to compile or build or otherwise "geek" the product the fellow that sent me the Live CD in 1999 would not have done so because he was NOT a geek. Also the fellow that told him about it would not have because he was NOT a geek and I would not have told 5 or 10 more people about it because I am NOT a geek and neither were they. In addition if I were a geek I would hesitate to tell other people about the product if it were not available in a user friendly format because I would then be responsible for maintaining not only my system but also all those to whom I had pitched it..... a situation most likely familiar to many of you. I certainly do not discourage the continuing progress on the improvement of the system. In fact I sincerely thank those of you who have made the product what it is by continuing to improve it. I must caution you, however that there are probably many more of us than you think who would rather have a working system that we can install and use than to have a "better" system that, due to our own limitations, we can not install and use. Please do not consider for even a moment abandoning the Live CD simplified installation! Thanks again for all the hard work. Cecil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
