Preferred Distribution

[Randal, Phil]

You can use yum to update CentOS in an analogous manner to RHEL's old up2date.

The rpmforge yum repository has re2c, needed for sa-compile with SA 3.2.0.

CentOS 5 with protectbase plugin for yum plus the rpmforge repository and Jules' handy installers should mean not having to go to CPAN for anything (though there may be some FuzzOCR dependencies still needing the manual use of CPAN - I've yet to check).

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

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> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Daniel Maher
> Sent: 10 May 2007 14:18
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: Preferred Distribution
> 
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> > Sent: May 10, 2007 9:01 AM
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> > Subject: Preferred Distribution
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am having to setup a couple of new mailservers where I am 
> working on
> > contract at the moment, using Dell SC1435 rack mounts.  The 
> problem is
> > that RedHat ES4 kernel is so old does not recognise the SAS 
> RAID card.
> > 
> > Now my question is should I get them to purchase RHES5, or 
> go for either
> > CentOS or Fedora ?
> > 
> > Personally I would use Gentoo or Ubuntu, but they are 
> really *not* happy
> > in using either of them for a corporate system :(
> 
> At my (reasonably large multi-national) company, we've 
> started using CentOS for all of our new machines, and will 
> likely continue to do so.  We don't need RedHat's telephone 
> support, nor do we care to use up2date, ergo the benefits of 
> using RedHat over CentOS are almost non-existent.  
> 
> YMMV, of course - especially if you're at a smaller 
> organisation where phone support might come in handy, or 
> where you don't manage your own software repository.
> 
> 0.02$
> 
> 
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