Gregory Warnes wrote: > > > > On 7/1/08 3:25PM , "Mark Hahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hmmm.... for me, its all about the kernel. Thats 90+% of the > battle. Some > > distros use good kernels, some do not. I won't mention who I think > is in the > > latter category. > > I was hoping for some discussion of concrete issues. for instance, > I have the impression debian uses something other than sysvinit - > does that work out well? > > Debian uses standard sysvinit-style scripts in /etc/init.d, /etc/rc0.d, ... > > is it a problem getting commercial > packages (pathscale/pgi/intel compilers, gaussian, etc) to run? > > I’ve never had any major problems. Most linux vendors supply both RPM’s > and .tar.gz installers, and I generally have better luck with the > latter, even on RPM based systems anyway. > > > the couple debian people I know tend to have more ideological motives > (which I do NOT impugn, except that I am personally more swayed by > practical, concrete reasons.) > > My ‘conversion’ to use of Debian had little to do with ideological > motives, and a lot more to do with minimizing the amount of time I had > to take away from my research to support the Linux clusters I was > maintaining at the time. > > Side note, one very nice thing about debian is the ability to upgrade a > system in-place from one O/S release to another via > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > Much nicer than reinstalling the O/S as seems to be (used to be?) the > norm with RPM-based systems > > -Greg
I did in place upgrades for RH8 machines to RH9 using APT-RPM, back in the day. I'm not sure about Yum, as I just haven't had cause to use RH/FC in some time. -- Geoffrey D. Jacobs _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
