[Dxspider-support] anyone running DXspider on RH / FC systems?

[Fulvio HB9DHG]

Hi Andrea and all readers,

I used dxspider under RH 6.3 without problems in earlier 1998, then
tested all distro with kernel 2.2 .. and at the end choosed the Mandrake
distribution (now 9.0 but my test-side use 10.0) since 2000 that is really
stable .. 
and of course I don't need to recompile the kernel.
It was also important to me .. to see that all the directory structured in
the RH distro
was the same on Mandrake. Suse use some different structure.

I tested more then one distro ... on more PC's, I've see some problems with
SUSE in all PC tested (Stability problems) :-(

Right know using, as said, Mandrake 9.0 under a PC 400 MHz PIII, and running
all
amateur radio services (http://www.hb9ok.org).

With DX-spider I found a GOOD (really!) sofware for cluster. It needs no
maintenance and
under Mandrake running fine. When I made some PC restarts ?? when CLX needs
some maintenance tasks :-)

All the best es gd DX


Best 73 de HB9DHG
-----------------
Fulvio Galli 
http://www.hb9dhg.ch
Sysop HB9OK Digital
http://www.hb9ok.org
     



> -----Original Message-----
> From: dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org 
> [mailto:dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org] On Behalf Of 
> Andrea Borgia
> Sent: mercoledì, 25. agosto 2004 20:22
> To: The DXSpider Support list
> Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] anyone running DXspider on RH 
> / FC systems?
> 
> Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote:
> 
> 
> > One big plus with SuSE is that Spider is nearly plug and 
> play.  All of 
> > the perl objects and AX.25 files are in the distro so there 
> is no need 
> > to download and install any additional packages.  You don't 
> even need 
> > to recompile the kernel to get packet radio operational.  I 
> have found 
> > it to be the most Ham friendly distro out.
> 
> I am biased towards Debian at the moment and I freely admit 
> it, but in my case all problems were due to the simple and 
> inescapable fact that... 
> I had never even _used_ a cluster node before I was (almost) 
> given the task of setting up one. I suppose Debian should 
> work out of the box, too, when it comes to the kernel(*), but 
> the perl stuff has to be downloaded via apt-get (no big 
> deal). Of course, much depends on what answers you give during setup.
> 
> Back to SuSE: did you perform a standard install? Which 
> version of the distro are you talking about? Was there any 
> SuSE-specific file to tweak to have a good setup? ("good" 
> does not mean just working: there's more than one way to do 
> it and one of them looks best 8-)
> 
> The kind of trivia I have in mind is: perl-module-FOO is 
> called perl-libfoo in debian, perl-modules-libfoo in distro 
> xyz and something else in SuSE (random examples). Dirk has 
> written the docs with the generic perl names in mind and I 
> think it would be a good idea to present the readers with the 
> distro-specific equivalents of those names.
> Hence my joke about gentoo: they're the least likely to 
> benefit from such kind of hand-holding.
> 
> As an aside: my articles will fit in a series that has used 
> RH as basis for examples in the past, so my desire to provide 
> a multi-distro perspective is in part simple need.
> 
> B73,
> Andrea.
> 
> (*) I was taught at the uni that you always roll the most 
> appropriate kernel for a given target, if you can afford it, 
> and for a reason.
> 
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