Hi, I'm a 40-year old sysadmin living in Montpezat, a small village in the sunny south of France. I'm a Linux user since 2001, when I made my first steps on a 486 with a Slackware 7.1 CD. I've tried maybe two dozen distributions, but I've stayed mostly with Slackware and Debian. Since last summer, I work as a sysadmin for our "Communaut? de Communes", a group of 16 villages, where I care for computers and installs of town halls and public libraries. I've configured a LAMP server in a datacenter, running Debian Sarge, and all clients in town halls and libraries are running Debian Etch, a highly stripped-down and personalized GNOME desktop with just a handful of apps needed for work. I've fiddled with CentOS before, around when 4.3 came out, and it was a close second in the choice of OS here. Had 5.0 been out at the time, I would gladly have chosen it. I've discussed the subject with Daniel de Kok, a fellow ex-Slacker and friend, and he's told me so many good things about the latest release of CentOS that I'm now seriously considering replacing my Debian installs with CentOS. I have an armada of PCs that i can fiddle with, and I've currently installed two different versions of CentOS, one as minimal as I could, one with a default GNOME desktop. On my personal laptop I have the Red Hat Deployment Guide, as well as some more CentOS-specific docs. I have a list of 40 or so items that I will have to take care of in the following days or weeks, maybe months: "minimal install?", "yum?", "configure wireless rt2500, rt61, ipw3945?", "find extra repos for multimedia stuff?", etcetera. I just went to take a peek at IRC, and "Arrfab" told me the main communication channel for CentOS was this mailing list. Cheers from France, Niki Kovacs -- Dyslexics have more fnu.
Niki Kovacs wrote:> I've fiddled with CentOS before, around when 4.3 came out, and it was a > close second in the choice of OS here. Had 5.0 been out at the time, I > would gladly have chosen it.Welcome back :) Cheers, Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070515/fffbc4f5/attachment.sig>
Hi Niki, On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 12:56 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:> I've fiddled with CentOS before, around when 4.3 came out, and it was a > close second in the choice of OS here. Had 5.0 been out at the time, I > would gladly have chosen it.Now that it's out: have fun :). -- Daniel
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Niki Kovacs wrote:> I have an armada of PCs that i can fiddle with, and I've currently installed > two different versions of CentOS, one as minimal as I could, one with a > default GNOME desktop. On my personal laptop I have the Red Hat Deployment > Guide, as well as some more CentOS-specific docs. I have a list of 40 or so > items that I will have to take care of in the following days or weeks, maybe > months: "minimal install?", "yum?", "configure wireless rt2500, rt61, > ipw3945?", "find extra repos for multimedia stuff?", etcetera. I just went to > take a peek at IRC, and "Arrfab" told me the main communication channel for > CentOS was this mailing list.Hi Niki, I maintain an add-on repository for CentOS called RPMforge. I'm very interested to look at the hardware issues you may have and see how we can fix them using dkms modules. Of course, fixing and packaging hardware drivers requires some investigation and guidance from you. Let me know what I can assist you with. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]