Ananth, > Just wanted to get the groups general feelings on what the preferred distro > is and why? Obviously assuming one didn't have a service agreement with > cloudera. There'll shortly be a third alternative: The debian package of hadoop is in the Debian new queue[1] and will hopefully pass it in a couple of days to enter debian unstable. A preview is available from the unofficial repository of the Debian-Java Team.[2][3] The Debian package took the cloudera packaging as model, with some slight changes:
- no version namespace, everything is called just "hadoop", not "hadoop-0.18" or "hadoop-0.20" as in the cloudera package - some contributions are missing due to lack of manpower or missing dependencies in Debian - the native C++ hadoop code is not in the package due to lack of manpower The advantage of the debian packages is a more standards conform integration in Debian. [1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html [2] put this in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org unstable/all/ [3] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/JavaPackaging Best regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro
