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Hi Gilbert,I can't vouch for the stability of all that you are trying to run, but we have pretty much standardized our Linux environment on CentOS 5.2 here and have found it to be very stable. No issues with LDM or McIDAS to report. 32 and 64-bit systems both run fine. CentOS is supported as far back as version 2, so I think it will be around and supported for quite a while.
I have just installed Fedora 10 on my personal office desktop machine, but haven't played around too much with it yet. We moved away from Fedora a couple of years ago because we found its update cycles too aggressive and really not fit for a "quasi"operational environment such as ours here @ UAlbany.
Cheers, Kevin ______________________________________________________________________ Kevin Tyle, Systems Administrator ********************** Dept. of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences ktyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx University at Albany, ES-235 518-442-4578 (voice) 1400 Washington Avenue 518-442-5825 (fax) Albany, NY 12222 ********************** ______________________________________________________________________ On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
Hello all, The past several days I have installed Fedora 10 on a test machine. I can't believe what I see. A lot of configuration options have simply been taken away. Options to let GDM run to let WXP make X-windowed images for GIF file generation, login as root, and various other things---gone. I can't even get LDM to start under the startup boot scripts. A Google search reveals loud complaints as well that have worsened from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10. Privately (and publicly), people have told me to switch to Centos. I've been scared because it runs an older version of Fedora (just repackaged). But if those choices will be taken away from me in upcoming versions of CentOS, then what? I'm back to square one. I'm looking for a Linux OS that can run with a configurable GDM, Alsamixer, Icecast and darkice as a sound server for NOAA radio audio, and how to do this while maintaining user IDs and users with shadow passwording, etc, and run LDM, McIDAS and WXP. Am I asking too much? Fedora 8, which I am running now, is EOL and I'm guessing security holes will be found soon that will make my machines hackable in the not too distant future (already noted one from NTP and trying to figure out if that affects me). I am running F9 on my NOAAport machine, but that doesn't require significant enough configuration changes that stops the LDM from running at startup. Gurus, any suggestions are greatly appreciated. All Linux options are on the table. ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** ******************************************************************************* _______________________________________________ ldm-users mailing list ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/
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