What about Debian based? I don't really like redhat's way of managing
things. They have a command for every task, and sometimes they cross-talk.
I prefer editing plain-text configuration files.

2012/6/14 Heller, Christopher R <christopher.r.hel...@intel.com>

>  It really depends on what you are using it for. I’ve been closely
> following and contributing to Warewulf - http://warewulf.lbl.gov/trac since
> early this year, and LBL really has resurrected the project. It still isn’t
> for the faint of heart as there are quite a few manual steps needed to get
> a cluster up and running, but it seems that they are trying to form a
> community to help them identify and work through the gaps and such and help
> with documentation. They have a new release, version 3.2 releasing (should
> be within a week) that fixes all the old broken issues with Warewulf and
> adds some new features. Again, it isn’t nearly as simple as ROCKS to
> install and deploy yet, but I feel that with enough help, this is possible.
> Don’t get me wrong, I like ROCKS for simple installations (and if the
> hardware is older), but there are often significant delays in supporting
> new RHEL/CentOS versions (which makes it difficult/impossible most of the
> time to recommend ROCKS for folks buying new hardware), plus the fact that
> you are tied to those distros vs Warewulf which is a more flexible
> framework.****
>
> ** **
>
> CAOS (the OS) and Perceus (from Infiscale) are also pretty much dead. Tis
> a shame, as I really liked Perceus, but as it was based on Warewulf
> components in the first place, I hope most of its functionality can be
> reproduced (and this time in a project, like Warewulf, that has a kinder
> license (BSD))****
>
> ** **
>
> Cheers, ****
>
> ** **
>
> Christopher Heller (former OSCAR core team member representing Intel from
> 2006-2007) ****
>
> HPC solutions engineer for the Intel Cluster Ready program****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Sam Whiteman [mailto:white...@ipfw.edu]
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 14, 2012 8:12 AM
> *To:* oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Oscar-users] Seeking OSCAR replacement (CentOS based
> preferred)****
>
> ** **
>
> I've been playing with Clusterllab's Pacemaker et. al.
>
> >>> "Nash, Stephen" 06/14/12 9:00 AM >>>
>
> ****
>
> Hello,****
>
>  ****
>
> OK. So it appears that Oscar is very much dead. Does anyone know of any **
> **
>
> similar solutions which are still active? ****
>
>  ****
>
> I have come across two that appear to still be ?alive?: Rocks and
> Warewulf. ****
>
>  ****
>
> Does anyone know of any others? A lot of the others that I have been aware
> ****
>
> of in the past (Oscar, Perceus, Caos, etc.) all lead to dead-ends web
> links or bits ****
>
> that are several years old.****
>
>  ****
>
> Thanks in advance,****
>
>  ****
>
> Steve Nash****
>
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