Al Tobey wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>.. >> So tell me, what would I be giving up? Application support? Something else? > > Even though I'm a bleeding-edge kind of person myself, I've often > considered going this direction for a few reasons: > - proprietary software is better tested against EL releases (nvidia > driver, flash, etc.) > - sometimes I just don't feel like working on my home workstation > after doing it all day at work > - I can usually build/install the hot stuff I want to play with > using rawhide SRPM's (many just need rpmbuild --rebuild) > - with EPEL and rpmforge, there's plenty of addon software to > complete your environment > - I can run bleeding edge safely inside kvm > > The old /dev/hd* IDE drivers will be going the way of OSS. They'll > very likely be entirely unsupported in EL6, though that's a wild guess > about something that doesn't even exist yet. > > By the way, udev does some neat stuff in /dev/disk for identifying > disks. I've been using /dev/disk/by-path for some iSCSI stuff and > it's really handy for finding out where /dev/sd* devices really point.
That sounds interesting. Would you consider writing up a page on our wiki about it sometime? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
