Re: Fedora 9

Thanks for all your replies. Reading them brings to home a potential target for using gentoo -- appliance, where admin has complete control over what is running on the machine and can gather the appropriate pieces for a specific target application, be it firewall, dvr, machine cotroller, etc.
Thank again,

Allan


On 05/16/2008 10:17:28 AM, Eric Krieger wrote:
> Gentoo is great...if you have a lot of time on your hands and you don't
> mind upgrades that can take days to finish.  As with Jonathan I've been
> bitten by emerge (esp. when it came to gcc) in the past.  Thank goodness
> for backup images. =)
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of Jonathan Lindsey
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 8:19 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> 
> I used to be a big gentoo person. Matthew is right, compiling can be a
> pain in the arse.  I actually worked for an ISP at the time, and the
> other users in the office, they were using some version of linux but
> were rdesktop into a windows ts server.  So since they weren't using
> their machines cpu cycles anyways, I loaded distcc and cc (a cross
> compiler) to their boxes, and had a cluster setup for my gentoo laptop.
> It made the process a little bit easier.  Not all packages were distcc
> capable, but hey it did help out in the long run.  The major reason I
> don't run gentoo now, although I've been thinking about going back to
> it.  I want something that just installs and works, turnkey, like ubuntu
> or fedora.  I don't really want to spend the time recompiling a kernel
> when I get home from work.  And as far as package managers go, emerge is
> great, but it has borked things up for me in the past.
> 
> -Jonathan Lindsey
> Network Engineer
> 3D Research Corporation
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of allan
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:28 PM
> To: New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List
> Cc: Allan Emord
> Subject: Re: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> 
> Hi!
> 
> At the risk of throwing a monkey wrench into the works...
> I don't see any activity reagarding gentoo on this UG. I've been running
> it on multiple machines for several months and I'm quite impressed with
> "emerge," gentoo's answer to "yum and other package managers. The
> repositories are quite well stocked and I was really surprised when I
> had to upgrade Perl to multithreaded for Apache mod_perl )one of those
> mutliple dependency issues) - it went very well, without a hitch.
> Any gentoo fans out there?
> 
> Peace,
> 
> Allan
> 
> 
> On 05/15/2008 09:21:45 AM, Eric Krieger wrote:
> > Nice and flawless are two different worlds.   Yum has it's limitations
> > as I recently found with trying to install phpmyadmin on a RH ES 5 
> > server which once install required php-mcrypt ...which required 
> > mcrypt..etc...none of these where resolve installing it via yum.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> > Behalf Of Jonathan Lindsey
> > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:19 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I dono.  Yum is quite nice, and I use it for adding software for the 
> > most part.  It's rare in RH/Fedora that I install from an rpm.  
> > Usually if it's not in yum, I'm going to have to build from src
> anyways.
> > 
> > -Jonathan
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > -Jonathan Lindsey
> > 
> > Network Engineer
> > 
> > 3D Research Corporation
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> > Behalf Of Eric Krieger
> > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:10 AM
> > To: New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List
> > Subject: Re: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I'd really wish that red hat/fedora would address the rpm dependency 
> > hell that is encountered with rpms.  That would be major development 
> > in my book.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> > Behalf Of Jonathan Lindsey
> > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 11:27 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Fedora 9 comes out tomorrow.  Most of the MVLug users know that I'm a 
> > big fedora fan.  I will be installing both fedora 9 x86 and amd64 
> > kernels as soon as I get them downloaded, and will definitely let 
> > people know how they are.  Fedora 8 has been relatively stable for me,
> 
> > and I'm happy with it.  I hope that 9 continues this progression.  I 
> > know that there's a new version of KDE this release... and a few 
> > improvements to the acpi.  If anyone has questions about this os, 
> > please don't hesitate to ask, I'll do my best to answer what I know, 
> > which some may say isn't very much.
> > 
> > -Jonathan Lindsey
> > Network Engineer
> > 3D Research Corporation
> > 
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> > Nice and flawless are two different worlds.   Yum has it's limitations
> > as I recently found with trying to install phpmyadmin on a RH ES 5 
> > server which once install required php-mcrypt .which required 
> > mcrypt..etc.none of these where resolve installing it via yum.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> > Behalf Of Jonathan Lindsey
> > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:19 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I dono.  Yum is quite nice, and I use it for adding software for the 
> > most part.  It's rare in RH/Fedora that I install from an rpm.  
> > Usually if it's not in yum, I'm going to have to build from src
> anyways.
> > 
> > -Jonathan
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > -Jonathan Lindsey
> > 
> > Network Engineer
> > 
> > 3D Research Corporation
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> > Behalf Of Eric Krieger
> > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:10 AM
> > To: New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List
> > Subject: Re: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I'd really wish that red hat/fedora would address the rpm dependency 
> > hell that is encountered with rpms.  That would be major development 
> > in my book.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > From:[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> > Behalf Of Jonathan Lindsey
> > Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 11:27 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [NMLUG] Fedora 9
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Fedora 9 comes out tomorrow.  Most of the MVLug users know that I'm a 
> > big fedora fan.  I will be installing both fedora 9 x86 and amd64 
> > kernels as soon as I get them downloaded, and will definitely let 
> > people know how they are.  Fedora 8 has been relatively stable for me,
> 
> > and I'm happy with it.  I hope that 9 continues this progression.  I 
> > know that there's a new version of KDE this release... and a few 
> > improvements to the acpi.  If anyone has questions about this os, 
> > please don't hesitate to ask, I'll do my best to answer what I know, 
> > which some may say isn't very much.
> > 
> > -Jonathan Lindsey
> > Network Engineer
> > 3D Research Corporation
> > 
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