Re: [mh] Base OS Requirements

[Jim S. <js...@sy...>]

I've been running on RH Linux / Fedora for several years on top of software
RAID with mirrored boot sectors as well - I've even rebooted it four or five
times intentionally, and a couple of automatically when the power outage was
longer than my UPS could stand, and a couple of times to replace a failed
disk - very stable! Seriously - I run 4 to 5 months at a time, and I don't
use the machine for much else and it's behind a tight firewall so I'm not
patching, there is no web browsing or any of that on this machine, I use VNC
to log onto the machine. I did a post a long time back on the various
userids and permissions I use to make sure the code is read only and the
data directories are writeable, and the userid that runs misterhouse does
not have permissions to write anywhere else in the file space.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: JimMH [mailto:jsk...@sb...] 
Sent: September 1, 2009 8:41 AM
To: mis...@li...
Subject: Re: [mh] Base OS Requirements


I am running mh on Fedora.  I know there are others using it as well.  I
started using it because I had a friend who runs Fedora so it was easier to
get help.  I haven't done much comparison but it seems that it has quite a
bit of support in prepackaged software including a fair amount of newer
stuff.  It has a new version every 6 months so if you want the newer stuff
you have to update frequently (or at least what I consider frequently since
I only work on this a bit at a time).  I think you will find every distro
has it's tradeoffs - pluses and aggrevations.  I recently discovered Fedora
sets up partitions as LVM as default.  Some may think LVM is great but I
didn't.  It wasn't clear to me at the time so it took some effort to work
around this when I wanted to install the new version as dual boot.  Now that
I know the issue I can easily avoid it.  

I think it really boils down to if you want the bleeding edge, very stable,
or something in between.  There are lots of choices.  I don't think it makes
much difference to mh.


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