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At the last non-acedemic job I had (a large financial services concern), we went from some 1000 or so Sun systems of every stripe (even had a U2 in service!) to 2500 or so x86 systems running (at the time) RHAS 2.1. Redhat has quirks, probably more c.2004 than now, but otherwise, there were no show stoppers. Still aren't. Being a Solaris guy and former Sun employee, I was unhappy, but ... it worked as advertised. OpenSolaris was not an option back then and they (Sun) were still coming out of their confusion about the x86 platform, whiched doomed them to obscurity in that shop. What's their stock at now? $4? *After* the 1:4 reverse split? Yeesh. Note that I'm only referring to RHEL (RHAS) and not Fedora. I have no experience with that. CentOS is, as I understand it, simply RHEL with all the Redhat trademarks removed. Perfectly acceptable under the GPL, if a lot of work. We have some sort of Redhat entitlement here, so our LDM ingest servers are running RHEL 5.2, but I can see that changing (we don't seem to get much with our entitlement!). -- Peter Laws / N5UWY National Weather Center / Network Operations Center University of Oklahoma Information Technology plaws@xxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------- How am I doing? Please contact my director, Craig Cochell, at craigc@xxxxxx with any feedback. Thank you! ------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: ldm-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ldm-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Mullenax Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 18:07 To: Gerry Creager Cc: ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ldm-users] LDM, McIDAS and more under Centos 5.2 or something else? ...nah, no Linux for me on the Ops boxes :)..at least until Sun messes up Solaris x86 again which is probably inevitable.. but I am sure it will be just fine on the PDI box. I have heard good things from several folks. -----Original Message----- From: Gerry Creager [mailto:gerry.creager@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Mon 1/26/2009 5:08 PM To: Robert Mullenax Cc: Gilbert Sebenste; ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ldm-users] LDM, McIDAS and more under Centos 5.2 or something else? Robert We've been running CentOS for years. And have had virtually no problem with it for LDM and Gempak. I know you won't be happy (;-) but I suspect you'll be relatively pleased with the performance. gerry Robert Mullenax wrote: > I certainly have no Linux plans for our main operational boxes (unless > Sun does something stupid with Solaris x86 again) but I bought two new > Dells that will replace our old PDI NoaaPORT boxes, and based on > Stonie's recommendations I will load them with CentOS. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ldm-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Gilbert Sebenste > Sent: Mon 1/26/2009 2:12 PM > To: ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [ldm-users] LDM, McIDAS and more under Centos 5.2 or > something else? > > My typo...CentOS is a rebuild of RHEL, not Fedora. All other info in my > statement applies. thanks for those sending in comments; will get to them > later today. > > ******************************************************************************* > 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/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ldm-users mailing list > ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ -- Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager@xxxxxxxx Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983 Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843
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