I'm going to be switching the computer running my jukebox from a Pentium II 266MHz to a Dual Celeron 400MHz.
I'm currently running Red Hat 7 and gjukebox 4.0
I'm want to get a version of linix on the new system that is capable of using the dual processors. My friend who is giving me his handme down hardware suggested that I should try Fedora, as that is the current descendant of Red Hat 7.
I noticed in the help forum that someone was having trouble getting gjukebox to run on Fedora.
That leads me to the following questions.
1. What version of gjukebox is the best to go with at this point?
2. How do you go about geting the latest CVS version?
3. What recent vintage distributions have people had success with, and what version of gjukebox did you use to achieve that success?
I will have the luxury of continuing to use my existing jukebox while I'm setting up the new system, so I'm more interested in getting a good solid configuration than a quick one.
Thanks for all the support that I've received from this forum since I decided to use gjukebox. I've found it tremendously satisfying to use.
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To my knowledge, you can make redhat 7 work with multiple processors simply by installing the SMP build of the kernel. There's probably an RPM that provides this, but if not, simply install the kernel-source RPM, and compile the kernel. In the configuration stage, answer yes to 'processor type and features'-->'Symmetric multi-processing support' (CONFIG_SMP)
Each source file is tracked in CVS individually, and no-one has gone to the trouble of producing a branch recently (To my knowledge, no-one has made a CVS branch (version) more recent than the one that corresponds to 4.1pre4). This means that while the source you pull from the CVS will be the most up-to-date, it may not work correctly. If you want the most up-to-date features, and don't mind doing a little troubleshooting, CVS is the way to go.
To get the source from CVS, install CVS, and use it to pull the jukebox tree. http://www.opencores.org/cvs.shtml has a good tutorial on CVS (though obviously you'd use the server settings on the sourceforge CVS page, rather than the ones in the tutorial).
I'd recommend gjukebox 4.1pre4, simply because it is an actual release, so you know you're getting files that work together, and it's easy for others to duplicate your configuration if you find a bug. Also, it has album cover art :)
This is a bit of an unorthodox recommendation, but I've nothing but good things to say about Debian Woody. Its package manager is a joy to use (and security updates are rapid and reliable), and all the packages that jukebox needs (apache, php, mysql) 'just work'. I'm using 4.1pre4 with it at the moment. Its X support isn't too modern, but is probably newer than redhat 7. If you're running a server, this is probably the best free distribution to use.
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I'm going to be switching the computer running my jukebox from a Pentium II 266MHz to a Dual Celeron 400MHz.
I'm currently running Red Hat 7 and gjukebox 4.0
I'm want to get a version of linix on the new system that is capable of using the dual processors. My friend who is giving me his handme down hardware suggested that I should try Fedora, as that is the current descendant of Red Hat 7.
I noticed in the help forum that someone was having trouble getting gjukebox to run on Fedora.
That leads me to the following questions.
1. What version of gjukebox is the best to go with at this point?
2. How do you go about geting the latest CVS version?
3. What recent vintage distributions have people had success with, and what version of gjukebox did you use to achieve that success?
I will have the luxury of continuing to use my existing jukebox while I'm setting up the new system, so I'm more interested in getting a good solid configuration than a quick one.
Thanks for all the support that I've received from this forum since I decided to use gjukebox. I've found it tremendously satisfying to use.
To my knowledge, you can make redhat 7 work with multiple processors simply by installing the SMP build of the kernel. There's probably an RPM that provides this, but if not, simply install the kernel-source RPM, and compile the kernel. In the configuration stage, answer yes to 'processor type and features'-->'Symmetric multi-processing support' (CONFIG_SMP)
Each source file is tracked in CVS individually, and no-one has gone to the trouble of producing a branch recently (To my knowledge, no-one has made a CVS branch (version) more recent than the one that corresponds to 4.1pre4). This means that while the source you pull from the CVS will be the most up-to-date, it may not work correctly. If you want the most up-to-date features, and don't mind doing a little troubleshooting, CVS is the way to go.
To get the source from CVS, install CVS, and use it to pull the jukebox tree. http://www.opencores.org/cvs.shtml has a good tutorial on CVS (though obviously you'd use the server settings on the sourceforge CVS page, rather than the ones in the tutorial).
I'd recommend gjukebox 4.1pre4, simply because it is an actual release, so you know you're getting files that work together, and it's easy for others to duplicate your configuration if you find a bug. Also, it has album cover art :)
This is a bit of an unorthodox recommendation, but I've nothing but good things to say about Debian Woody. Its package manager is a joy to use (and security updates are rapid and reliable), and all the packages that jukebox needs (apache, php, mysql) 'just work'. I'm using 4.1pre4 with it at the moment. Its X support isn't too modern, but is probably newer than redhat 7. If you're running a server, this is probably the best free distribution to use.