On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:09, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit Internet) wrote: >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've built a considerable amount of this system now, so I'm not allergic to the idea as long as the ./configure scripts can sort the dependencies. >> 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. Yeah, I saw that, after I'd nuked the other 2 images and gotten the torrent started. Duh, hindsight is always 20-05 you know. :( >Nils Breunese. > >-- >fedora-legacy-list mailing list >fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
