CentOS 4.2 for alpha

[Sergey Tikhonov]

Pasi Pirhonen wrote:

>Hi,
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>On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 06:02:15PM -0400, Jay Estabrook wrote:
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>>On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 11:06:44AM -0500, terry.bowling at verizon.com wrote:
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>>>I came across an update posted on the CentOS page.  www.centos.org  Shows 
>>>the new 4.2 release for nearly all arch's and the Alpha arch is no longer 
>>>beta?  Anyone try this lately?  I'm hoping to next week.
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>>Yes, it is real.
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>>Installed from CD very easily on an LX164.
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>>Currently in the midst of an NFS install to a DS25, which looks good
>>as well...
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>>NICE JOB by the the CentOS Alpha folk!!!! :-) :-) :-)
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>I can pinpoint several problems with it, but as i have been saying,
>it's a start. Generally i am now quite happy with it when i can have
>'mostly same kernel than mainstream CentOS' on it, which was not the
>case for initial beta-release. 
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>I have to still say that i am no way a qualified person keeping up the
>changes on kernel area. even tho i've managed to make it work, it
>doesn't imply that i truly understand anything about kernel internals,
>so there would be open position (hint :).
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>Only thing i've learned my few years of merging all kind of weird
>patched in kerne, is that it's amazing how much punishment Linux-kernel
>can actually take, and still work mostly OK :)
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>How i do see it, it's like CentOS-4/alpha trying to be something long
>term for people that does need such features. It will give the AlphaCore
>more freedom for being bleeding edge.
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>Eventually i'd like to see Fedora Core/alpha released for every
>mainstream release, but it might be just me.
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>Actually my only SMP box being ES45, it's kind of 'too hot for me'. I
>do need SMP-box for testing kernels etc. but frankly the ES45 draws too
>much juice for me to keep it on all the time.
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>Winter, as it's steadily coming, helps things out on cooling area, but
>that doesn't change the fact that eventually i will blow up my fuses
>when trying to keep everything online :)
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>But anyway. Thank you Jay for your kind and engouraging words. I wasn't
>quite sure how this 'yet another ripoff of RHEL4 codebase' would be
>taken by community, but generally i do now have feeling that it's
>accepted, so it makes me work even harder with all problems popping up
>future.
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Would someone gives me means to work hard too? :)) I am starting feeling 
that there is no very much interest in
"bleeding age" alpha distribution (wondering are there people who is 
running devel tree, except me :) ). Just curious.

Regrads,

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Sergey Tikhonov
Solvo Ltd.
tsv at solvo.ru