[elrepo] Announcement: EL5 Updated kernel-ml Release [Version 2.6.37-0.3.el5.elrepo]

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Nikki Locke wrote:

> Dag Wieers wrote:
>> Normally, you buy your hardware based on what your needs are. If you
>> planned to run Linux all along, you look for the hardware that has the
>> best support.
>
> I spoke to the hardware supplier. I said I wanted to run CentOs 5. I said I
> needed dual monitors, plenty of grunt, and at least 8 GB of memory. USB3 wasn't
> an issue at the time (it wasn't available at reasonable cost yet). They provided
> a machine according to those specs. Or so I thought.
>
> Later, I saw a USB3 2TB drive at a reasonable price, and checked on the Web
> where it said Linux was the first O/S to support USB3, long before Windows, so
> bought one. And started down this twisty maze of dead ends!

If you plan on running CentOS 5 (which is 4 years old) and you expected to 
have a working USB3, you are quite the optimist :-)


>> For a desktop that's more important than for a server, because you have
>> more specific requirements (video drivers, wireless, suspend/hibernate,
>> ...).
>
> Video drivers are important to me. This machine is used mainly as a desktop. I
> run VMWare Workstation on the machine, and my main desktop environment is one of
> the VMs I run. It extends over the two monitors.

If video drivers are important, investigating beforehand is crucial. 
Especially for CentOS 5 and considering 3rd party drivers are a major 
pain.


>> But for a server the video and USB3 are hardly important, so I guess
>> whether it is Linux or Windows is not that big of a deal to you.
>
> Anyway, I'm not sure why USB3 would not be important for a server - it seems to
> be the most efficient way to do backups these days, and surely backing up is an
> important requirement for a server?

Because my typical stream of thought puts server and Enterprise Linux 
together, and Enterprise Linux mismatches with latest technology. Even if 
it would be working on RHEL6, I wouldn't rely on it for anything that's 
production-worthy (given how often my RHEL6 desktop fails on me ;-)).

Besides I am used to servers as in 'not having physical access to it' or 
even 'not within a 4 hours drive' altogether. Preconditioned ;-)

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