-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill,
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:17:31PM -0700, Bill Roddy wrote: > Answer to your question, Can I add RHEL to my repository list. the > answer is yes. If you do not have yum now and don't use yum, you must be > using up2date. You can install yum and only use it for the repositories > you need. Or you can use it for the RHEL repositories, too. Or, better > yet, you can point it at the Scientific Linux repositories, which are > the same, but scrutinized much more than even RHEL. As someone wrote > you, there's a lot to be said about CentOS, but it's my experience that > it has less oversight than Scientific Linux, which, like I say, is just > RHEL with the logos stripped and each package written from source. There are lots of hidden nightmares for one who would do a cross-arch repository like that. When I was the ia64 port maintainer for Tao Linux I experiemnted with this to some extent. If one wishes to use an RHEL rebuild and save tons and tons of money forgoing the support than I highly recommend that. I'm not sure why you'd want to run RHEL unless you're using Oracle or something... anyways. You can always login to the... was it called Primier or was that Intel. I think that was for Intel compilers... ::sigh:: damn memory. Obviously I'm partial to Tao Linux over Whitebox, CentOS (*shudder*) or any other RHEL clone. Yet I can't help wanting to scream (USE DEBIAN!!) ;-) http://www.taolinux.com/ - From my professional experience building RHEL clusters I would say that it's basically expensive rubbish. You get some really crappy OS where they've even implemented resource starvation. The company I worked for almost ate $8M worth of hardware when an RHEL kernel patch out-of-box basically redued the aggressiveness at which dirty pages of memory where cleaned by 95%!! WTF were they thinking? I don't trust any of their modifications and the support contract is a waste of time unless you are somehow obligated to have a support contract as some institutions are. peace, core -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDRyaXGAuLrxOyeJMRAvKkAKD23E/oRG5xFuiHibIVrc+ZcExKPACgr8Is APiesrCJAf62DselOdNr8l4= =7v1F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
