On May 4, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Jonathan C. Bailey wrote:
I REALLY don't like OEL (or RHEL, or really any RPM based distro)
I think that's the first time I've heard anyone avoid a distro based on the package manager. :|
I've had uniformly bad luck with ubuntu and integrating it into an enterprise environment. OK, my enterprise environment isn't all that modern (I'm still running NIS with lots of NFS and automounter), but ubuntu was a pain.
CentOS, on the other hand, Just Works. It's reliable and stable, too. So, I'd suggest option #5:
5) Bite my tongue and just run OEL
I'm running vanilla SRSS on SPARC/Solaris, but at this point so many of my users are simply using options -> remote login to XDM over to a CentOS box I'll probably try and put together a kiosk config to let them choose which system (probably based on a course name instead of a system name) to log in to.
-Jason ---------------------------------------- Jason Winningham Computer Systems Engineer College of Engineering The University of Alabama in Huntsville http://support.eng.uah.edu/ http://www.eng.uah.edu/~jdw _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
