Robert G. Brown wrote:
[...]
It is worth noting that (while yes, up2date sucks and has always sucked)
yum in FC 7 is a far, far cry from yum in RH 9. Dependency hell is
always a bad thing, but very, very few people have experienced it with
yum since maybe FC 4 or 5, if not earlier.
Fair point - My experience of "yum" was in RH9. As I've mentioned here
before I crashed and burned trying to upgrade RH9 to FC2. I had better
experience with Debian, and I wanted to use NEBC's Bio-Linux packages:
http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
These are Debian binaries - not the rpm biolinux repository:
http://www.biolinux.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
This set me off down the Debian/Ubuntu path, which I had already decided
to explore anyway. I'm running an openMosix kernel (linux-2.4.26-om1)
under 'biobuntu' (NEBC Bio-Linux + Ubuntu) on our Beowulf:
http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk
We support VNC logins via SSH, and use lots of desktop applications. I
realise this influences my view about what is the 'best' distribution,
and why the package manager is so important. This is a small (92 node)
cluster, not 'BIG' iron like many people on this list run! However, it's
fairly typical of the sort of DIY cluster the discussion is about...
Tony.
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