Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-11-09 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Vandaman wrote: You are the guy who is having a bit of a moan on the Fedora list about KDE. How many patches have you contributed to Fedora or to CentOS? This is open source after all, you have access to the source. Not every user is a contributor for development, documenta

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-11-07 Thread Les Mikesell
Vandaman wrote: Milton Calnek wrote: Sorry, I missed the question. I'm severely confused and I don't know what I'm talking about. My friend, stop misquoting me. See http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-November/067393.html Are you leading by example here? -- Les Mikesell [EM

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-11-07 Thread Vandaman
Milton Calnek wrote: > Sorry, I missed the question. I'm severely confused > and I don't know what I'm talking about. My friend, stop misquoting me. See http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-November/067393.html Regards, Vandaman. ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-11-07 Thread Milton Calnek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vandaman wrote: >> I'm listening if you have any other comments or advice >> on my situation. >> Sorry, I missed the question. - -- Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 306-717-8737 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-11-05 Thread Vandaman
Linuxguy123 wrote: > I've been a RH/Fedora guy since the RH8 days. When > Fedora came along, I > moved to it, but its been a bit painful beta testing > software all the > time. I ran Ubuntu for a while, but I found their package > management > to be difficult... I do a lot of technical work, >

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-10-31 Thread Karanbir Singh
Phil Schaffner wrote: IMHO should be a separate repo, or at least a naming scheme that would let people still use the "traditional" centos-plus kernels Sure, thats a bridge to cross when we have someone offering to maintain this. And I was already thinking along those lines.. - KB _

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-10-31 Thread Rubin
Hi, for what it's worth, I'm running CentOS 5 with the planet-core, planet-ccrma and novell-mono repos which exist for centos/rhel5 these days. The planet-core repo contains the 2.6.24.7 with realtime patches and other goodness for audio/video stuffs. I've been using this setup for about 6 months

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-10-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Phil Schaffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 22:33 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Linuxguy123 wrote: >> > b) One of the things I really need are up to date (bleeding edge) >> > kernels. For example, F8 has 2.6.26 kernels, whereas CentOS appear

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-10-30 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 22:33 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Linuxguy123 wrote: > > b) One of the things I really need are up to date (bleeding edge) > > kernels. For example, F8 has 2.6.26 kernels, whereas CentOS appears to > > be running 2.6.18 kernels. I do know how to build my own kernels, but

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-10-30 Thread Dag Wieers
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Dag Wieers wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: Linuxguy123 wrote: > b) One of the things I really need are up to date (bleeding edge) > kernels. For example, F8 has 2.6.26 kernels, whereas CentOS appears to > be running 2.6.18 kernels. I do know how

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-10-30 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: Linuxguy123 wrote: b) One of the things I really need are up to date (bleeding edge) kernels. For example, F8 has 2.6.26 kernels, whereas CentOS appears to be running 2.6.18 kernels. I do know how to build my own kernels, but that is a pain. D

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-10-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
Linuxguy123 wrote: b) One of the things I really need are up to date (bleeding edge) kernels. For example, F8 has 2.6.26 kernels, whereas CentOS appears to be running 2.6.18 kernels. I do know how to build my own kernels, but that is a pain. Does someone keep a separate repository that has mor

Re: [CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-10-30 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Linuxguy123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus I am shopping for a new OS to solve this problem and the problem of > continually being a beta tester if one is an up to date Fedora user. > With Fedora it seems that one just gets a new installation working > nicely

[CentOS] Tired of Fedora, shopping for a new OS. Upgrade from F8 ? CentOS kernel versions ?

2008-10-30 Thread Linuxguy123
I've been a RH/Fedora guy since the RH8 days. When Fedora came along, I moved to it, but its been a bit painful beta testing software all the time. I ran Ubuntu for a while, but I found their package management to be difficult... I do a lot of technical work, development and loading and building