Gene Heskett wrote:
Is this a desktop workstation or a server? If this is a workstation
or a non-production server, why not just go with the Fedora flow? I
run Fedora Core 5 on my workstation and it's working just fine.
If you really don't like upgrading your OS every couple of months I'd
backup my data and do a fresh install of CentOS 4.4.
The last centos I pulled was 4.3 just a month ago, the kernel was
in the
2.6.9. Thats at least a year old, and ieee1394 support is broken,
still
is for that matter. Thats one thing I do keep up with, currently
running
2.6.18-rc7.
It's an enterprise OS, so don't expect the latest versions of
packages in the official repositories. There are extra repositories
that do provide newer packages (centos-plus et al). And you can
always roll your own kernel if you need too. I'd just get a base
system that fits most of your needs.
Is it new enough that I can then build a current kernel and install
all of
kino-0.8 and its utils, or am I headed (again) for dependency hell
trying
to edit a wedding from my firewire equipt movie camera and burn a
vcd of
it? That would be the target job for me at the moment, the rest is
convienience stuff. This is the only box with a firewire card
installed,
and the rest are slower boxes.
I just use CentOS for servers, so I wouldn't know how kino is doing
on CentOS, but the things you want to do (multimedia, firewire,
movies) sound like you'd be better off with a Fedora upgrade. Is
something keeping you from upgrading your FC2 install to a newer
Fedora release? FC5 has a 2.6.17 kernel and probably the latest
versions of packages, unless you compile everything yourself anyway.
I didn't know centos-4.4 was out, I may fire up azureas and nuke
the 4.3
dvd images I have now.
Looking at the number of packages at http://mirror.centos.org/
centos-4/4.4/updates/i386/RPMS/ I wouldn't bother. Just install 4.3
and run a quick yum update to get to 4.4.
Nils Breunese.
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