similar to: CentOS VERY different than RHEL

Which is better? Why? I know yum is the official update mechanism here and in Fedora Core, but that doesn't make yum better than up2date any more than Windows NT was better than OS/2. Let's try to keep the discussion objective:-) I'm asking, hoping for some insights into why RH might (apparently) be moving to yum in preference to up2date (yum is now used within Anaconda). Other

I am trying to update a centos box with an unsupported kernel (for XFS support): [root at snowybunting /]# uname -a Linux snowybunting.homelinux.net 2.6.9-34.106.unsupportedsmp #1 SMP Sat Mar 18 16:22:41 CST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux To update I did: yum update python-sqlite yum clean all yum update yum yum clean all yum update ..and I get the following > 91 packages excluded

CentOS3.9 Users: After applying all Updates to Upgrade from CentOS 3.8 CentOS 3.9 I find up2date no longer works "correctly" (or shall I say NOT as before)... Missing is the "sources" File!!! Is this how V 4.5.5-7 is supposed to be or is the "sources" File omission an "error"??? Lawrence Houston -- (centos at greenfield.dyndns.org)

Pardon the newbie question, but I thought I'd check with you guys here since I couldn't find the answer to this one on CentOS web site. I installed CentOS 3.4 (needed an equivalent of RHEL 3.4 for a very specific purpose - not interested in newer releases at this point) and downloaded all available up2date stuff. However, Apache is at v2.0.46, php is at 4.3.4, and so on - which are

All, There have been many requests for added kernel features that the upstream provider left out of the standard kernel. (ReiserFS, Video4Linux, Firewire support, XFS, NTFS, JFS, etc.). We want the main release CDs to contain a standard kernel for compatibility and stability reasons. CentOS is created as a clone, and it needs to be as close as possible to the upstream distro. That being said,

I work for a small company, and we're running CentOS on our servers. We are looking to possibly move our most critical servers to RHEL. We currently use apt to deploy software upgrades to our servers. I have a question about RHEL subscriptions that they don't seem to be able to answer for me. If you have an RHEL subscription, do you have access to manually download the RPMs? We

Hi, After last kernel update (yesterday), I can't use my pendrive. After insert to port there is no new drive icon on a desktop. Anybody has the same problem? Regards. -- ____________________________________________________________________ D o m i n i k S k ? a d a n o w s k i

Dear All, If someone asks a question such as "When is Centos 5.4 coming out" bare in mind that it may be because they genuinely want to know when it's coming out, and feel that somehow, they have not been privy to that information. To me, I see CentOS as a polished professional product given what it is, a repackaging of RHEL, and to that end I have the expectation of a fully

Hi, RHEL 4 ships with Ruby 1.8.1. I take it that won''t work with Rails 1.1.2? Thanks, Joe

Greetings - I have a rhel 3 server that I want to migrate to centos. The FAQ: http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=19 pretty much tells me what I need to do but what is going to happen when I run yum update? Will it replace every RPM on my system with its centos counterpart or will it only upgrade RPMS as new versions are released? This is a production system and I'm

Hello ALL! First, I apologize for sending question that spill-out from the scope of this list. However, you might be essentially the best informants. In brief, I am thinking to give second shot to the Debian. Currently I am using Ubuntu 9.04, but Debian still teases me, so to say. I used to use Debian testing (Lenny at that time), but when Lenny became stable, things became very shaky in

Hi, we have a new customer to support. They have RHEL5 not CentOS5. Is there a summary of the differences between RHEL and CentOS? We have come across differences in how yum works. There is magic involving the rhnplugin that connects us to invisible repositories not mentioned in the yum config files, interacts with the web interface via rhn.redhat.com, ... We wonder if there are other

Hi everyone, I compiled parts of LLVM to JavaScript using emscripten and made a demo of parsing and executing LLVM assembly, http://kripken.github.com/llvm.js/demo.html Basically you enter some LLVM IR, press a button and see the output of compiling and running it, directly in the browser. This was done mainly as a fun hacking project over the holidays, but I'm posting it here in case

I'm not so sure if I'm asking right question so please forgive me; I have RHEL AS 4 media with me here; my company have an active subscription to RHN from for a limited number of servers only. If I add more servers more than allowed channel subscription; up2date doesn't work as you know. That's why I'm introducing CentOS to my company. Now, I just wondering, is there any way I

Hello, I have some servers that have lost their RHEL update entitlements. Thinking through it, I realized we may not really need those entitlements. However, I would still like to automate keeping them up to date for security fixes. So, is there any way to swap out the Yum/up2date RHEL repositories for CentOS without breaking things? Thanks! -Eugene

Hi The Dragon book, led my thoughts to "Here be dragons" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons "In another context, software programmers sometimes use it to indicate especially difficult or obscure sections of code in a program so that others do not tamper with them." Why not some dragon name ? or maybe someone can use this idea to come up with something else. /f

Firstly I have to say that having just tried out theora 1.1 beta 3 the improvement over the previous 1.0 is amazing. In my very subjective view it looks like the same quality for about half the bitrate and that's amazingly impressive. The results have for the most part been excellent and my congratulations to all concerned for there very hard work. There is (for me) only one serious problem

Hello, Has anyone succeeded on configuring and compiling Sieve capable Dovecot LDA on RHEL 4 x86_64 platform? I am having problems with configure script hanging on sed while creating Makefiles. # ./configure --with-dovecot=../dovecot .. checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking for library containing

Hi Ralph, I'll be here the next 8 hours, maybe a little more ;) just tell me when/how could we start Spanish wiki content. BTW, happy holiday :) Cheers, al.

In early June, there was an update from freenx 0.4.x to 0.5.x in centosplus. It broke full screen mode for Linux clients. I am aware of the ctrl-alt-f workaround. But I have quite a few users at branch offices who depend on NX and with employee turnover and all, it has been a source of confusion for us. Has anyone come up with a fix so that fullscreen works without crtl-alt-f? I've