[Dxspider-support] Fedora - newbie warning

[Bob Nielsen]

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is a good choice for a combination of support and  
AX25 capability.  The desktop version will be supported for three  
years and the server for five years (counting from the April, 2008  
release date).  The standard Ubuntu kernels include AX25.

Bob. N7XY

On Jul 15, 2008, at 3:10 PM, Brendan Minish wrote:

> It depends!
>
> Do you intend having RFaccess ?
>
> I am a linux sysadmin these days and ei7mre has always run on a linux
> platform. Linux is not that hard and is a great platform for DXspider
>
> My strong inclination would be to build it on a linux platform that  
> will
> have long term distribution support centos is a good choice here
>
> Fedora9 is a nice desktop distro, it's what I run on my desktop and
> laptop machines but it will be end of life from a support perspective
> when fedora11 comes out in less than 12months time
> I run Centos 5.2 on my servers, it will be supported for as long as
> redhat support RHEL 5
>
> Since i no longer have any RF users, today I migrated my node to a
> virtual server from slicehost www.slicehost.com and I have to say that
> this looks like a great solution so far.
> It took about an hour to go from a fresh slicehost machine running
> centos to a fully working node
>
> The rental on the slicehost virtual machine is less than the monthly
> electricity cost to keep a server running in EI, it's also  
> connected to
> a fast reliable internet backbone and has RAID10 storage
>
> If you need RF access then you will need to use a platform that  
> supports
> AX25. Linux supports AX25 very well BUT AX25 support may not be  
> part of
> the stock kernel with some distributions so you will need to  
> compile the
> relevant kernel modules
>
> 73
> Brendan EI6IZ
> sysop EI7MRE ei7mre.ath.cx 7300
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 14:50 -0500, Danny Pease wrote:
>> I am a complete novice at both Linux and sysoping a DX node. I am
>> looking at putting a cluster on in west central Illinois. I have a
>> machine that has Fedora 9 already installed. Will DX Spider be any
>> problems using Fedora 9? I also have Redhat Linux 9 installation
>> package, if that would be any better.
>>
>> I really want to learn to use Linux, but would installing under  
>> Windows
>> rather than Linux a better option for me?
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Danny NG9R
>> dpease at adams.net
>>
>>
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Bob Nielsen
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