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[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: | Hello Everybody, | | Thx for the respons in previous posts, but what I want to know is wich distribution of Linux is the best to implement an OpenAFS system? | I already tried Slackware and Gentoo, but both off them are not the best distributions for OpenAFS. | Who has good experiences with OpenAFS on Linux with a 2.4.26 kernel?
*here*
| And wich distribution did you use?
Best distribution is somewhat misleading. It always depend on your work and knowledge. For OpenAFS it seems to be vital, to get the latest stable "nearly fast" and the latest unstable "nearby". So best distribution would be the one in which you can built your own OpenAFS from source without any flaws.
*MY point of view follows*
1. I dislike SuSe at all. And OpenAFS is special on SuSe, because they alway have got heavy patches everywhere I assume. Hard to get updates. 2. Gentoo - I don't like to built every package on my system and as I learned today, latest OpenAFS packages only with some kind of hack available (stable and unstable) 3. RedHat <9.x: official builds available, source for 1.3.xx, but old system 4. Fedora Core- No official builds for 1.3.xx, but inofficial over the net. For me in my network not nice, because after 6-12 month NO more updates (that not nice for long run servers), and because of bleeding edge development always some flaws in the packages.... 5. Debian - My choice. You can run stable (woody), very old, very stable, but only OpenAFS 1.2.13. I run Sarge (the "new"-"will-be" stable" with pinning, so some packages from experimental on my system. For me, apt is better than rpm (or apt for rpm), it solves the dependencies on its own. For OpenAFS you need the experimental sources, there are 1.3.74 packages. Yes, a bit older, but the maintainer has made 1.3.79 and is NOT happy with it, so I built the 1.3.79 from the maintainers source and put them on my ftp as unofficial builts, and I'm happy with them till now with 2.6.10 as a full OpenAFS Server (File&Database) and Client. 1.3.74 works under 2.4.27 flawless for me, although I built my own kernel without most of the modules. For me the best point that speaks for debian is the support. If you had setup woody on your server 4 years ago, you were still running the same configuration with secure package, because security updates are available for a long time. And there are lots of backports available for newer packages. E.G. set up a server now with sarge, and you know, in 3 years there are still security updates for this server, there are no updates that breaks the configuration or change anything big, and at least, you are able to install up to date versions with backports.
More I haven't been in contact with. Ok, MacOS-X, but thats not on your mind, I assume, although IRIX or HP-UX.
| THX | | Greetz
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