Buccaneer for Hire. wrote:
--- Mike Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't see this as a problem in a production
cluster. The fact is that
I've been doing this stuff for a little over two
decades and I can build
anything that I need for an application. For me a
manual library build
for CentOs 3 is easier than trying to find support
for FC4 or
reinstalling FC 1x per year. My CentOs 3 nodes have
had less than 2hours
downtime in 2 years and that was due to a Power
Upgrade at their
location, that required a complete shutdown of all
machines on the floor.
Now I should say, that I don't use diskless nodes,
each node has its own
OS disk and most have a separate /tmp disk for
scratch use. That is one
reason that we differ on OS, I believe.
You should use what works best for you.
But, building software on RHEL/CentOS is way more
difficult for the most part than building software
under Fedora. That's the difference between ~1200
programs and thousands of programs in a distro.
I've had very little difficulty building programs under CentOS, all in
all. In fact, lately, I've had problems with Fedora, as it is close to
bleeding edge, but the Centos stuff just works. I may not be able to do
it with native RPMs, but I still remember how to drive a compiler, too.
gerry
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