On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 08:23:43 PM Jack Coats did opine: > I know EMC2 doesn't do anything but Ubuntu LTS as it's 'official' > supported distribution. > > On several other lists I have noticed the complaints about the Ubuntu > Bloat and moving > to Unity and things not working. > > Have we, as a community or even just developers, thought about now to > go to a 'less bloated' > distribution? > > I do like the idea of the LTS (Long Term Support) part of > distributions. And moving > from any distribution to another I have always considered a pain. But > I could support > moving if we can find another 'long term supportable' option where > this community > doesn't have to support the OS also. > > Any ideas? Thoughts? Concerns? > I am considering moving this box from pclos to centos-6, but as a kde person, the kde in it is one of the half broken 4.3.5 hacks, probably with its bigger warts covered by the parent RHEL-6 patches.
This theoretically gets us nearly 5 years of LTS. The downside is that while security patches will follow the RH releases by 1-2 weeks, version numbers are largely frozen since RH has a habit of backporting patches but not a whole new release. But OTOH, it is at least as fresh as 10.04 is, and likely a heck of a lot more complete than my pclos is. I am always finding something that needs 2 or 4 libraries pclos doesn't supply so I can't build a newer, 10,000% improved digikam for instance. Ditto for wpa_suplicant which in the pclos version is a miserable, time wasting failure. For 10.04, it Just Works(TM). That distro runs at a bit over 7Gb, takes two dvd's now. Its current kernel is 2.6.32-71 in the 64 bit version. This is still being actively supported on the Linux-Kernel Mailing list as a long term supported kernel, and should be fine on any hardware more than 2 years old. AFAIK, no new 'long term' kernels are about, and likely won't be till 3 months or so before the RHEL-7-rc1 release is defined. Since 6 is pretty fresh, that likely is 2 years plus down the log. I ran a 2.6.32 kernel here for a while, but pclos changed to the 2.6.38 about 9 months back, with the BFS scheduler enabled in some builds. How that would co-exist with RTAI, I have no clue, but to the desktop user, bfs is one heck of an improvement in the feel. > Thanks for the responses. ... Jack > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure > contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, > security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this > data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> "When it comes to humility, I'm the greatest." -- Bullwinkle Moose ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
