On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 at 2:12pm, Robert G. Brown wrote
Try installing two year old Centos AT ALL on six-month-old hardware, and I think that there is a very high probability that it will require a much larger investment in time backporting kernels and worse.
I think you underestimate the amount of driver back-porting RH puts into point releases. When I first got my dual woodcrest compute nodes, the current CentOS point release (4.4) worked almost perfectly on them (a network driver upgrade removed the "almost" from that statement). Are the app libraries out of date compared to Fedora? Sure. Are you more likely to have success at this with "server" hardware than more desktop oriented hardware? Sure. But the point is that RH does roll a lot of new hardware support into their enterprise distro as it ages.
-- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
