I've been using FC2 on a PE2600 (dual Xeon) in the DOE for a couple weeks. I have had no problems with it so far. I also figure the scheduling for the multiple processors in the 2.6 kernel is much improved over 2.4.
Fedora also has repositories in Hawaii (fedora.us/hosef) which work with yum, apt and up2date. Slack 10 has just been released and has an option to use the 2.6.7 kernel. But I don't follow it. Hope this helps, Tom On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 01:20, Ric wrote: > Thanks for a great, informative list. The posters and > admins constantly provide an awesome resource for > people like me, and I thank you. > > I am a DOE high school classrooom teacher in a lab of > about 23 Win XP Pentium 4s, doing mostly web design > and animation. This past year I have been running the > school's web server, and my classroom file server, on > a donated IBM P2 running Red Hat 8. It's worked great! > I had no Linux experience, yet with the help of a > couple of O'Reilly books and well-commented config > files (and this list), have had to spend a minimal > amount of time sysadmining the server. I am convinced > that Linux just works, and if it doesn't, there is > plenty of help in the form of documents or experts. > (This after I spent a month, a freaking month, trying > to get Win2K Server running on the same machine.) > > Anyways, we just got 2 Dell PowerEdge servers, a 2500 > with a P3 and a 2600 with a Xeon. I was just wondering > if anyone has any recommendations for which Linux > distro I should install on them for doing the same > thing as my current server - mostly file and web > serving. I'm not sure if I want to subscribe to the > whole Red Hat Network dealio, even with the great > academic discounts. What about Fedora or Slackware? I > don't have a lot of time to do a thorough analysis of > all the distros, but I'd love to take a look at a few > of the best candidates. > > And yes... I am eventually going to convert all of Win > XP desktops over to Linux within 2 years (already > started to set up dual-boot machines this upcoming > school year to run Maya on Linux) > > This list rocks! > > Ric > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.hosef.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luau -- Tom Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <3 the United States of America
