[Lancaster] Virtual box fedora install

[Wayne Ward]

Hi ken i hope i am ready for rpm as i am rhce and rhct registered!!!
and been using red hat from day one!!!
commercially ive had clusters running and from a personal point of  
view i preferred gentoo on the boxes!!
but when it comes to getting external support for the servers incase i  
get hit by a bus they tend to ask for red hat servers
i know novell and ubuntu have support packages and are commercial all  
the corporates i deal with and have dealt with in the past ten years
will only offer support on red hat.
When i have been doing the different installs id say out of the newbie  
installs id go for ubuntu for a few simple reasons - the easiest  
install - probably the most popular and easiest to get help on and its  
probably got all the tools you need to configure it in the menus and  
installs plugins and hardware drivers out of the box!!! plus it comes  
on one cd!! one of the reasons i never tested suse is because ih has  
three cd's or one dvd !! - i tested fedora because it was a one cd  
distro but probably wouldnt waste another cd on it again!!

on another side when you move onto the next level gentoo is quality i  
love it i just feels great - arch came in second - zen ? mmm dont know  
about this one! and on another level netbsd was easy install - fast  
install - but need to learn how to administer it - I think ill just be  
sticking to gentoo!!!

the summary is ill be using ubuntu for friends customers and  
recomondations to newbies - serves it a toss up between debian and  
ubuntu im going to to test both next week and see whats gong to be  
best for this i might even try red hat server!!!
for me for my own linux boxes im going to use gentoo - im just going  
to build one thats going to run full time in a virtual box on my  
server that link checks all my sites and emails me bad links on my  
sites and also use it as a nagios that monitors all my web services  
and servers - ill get this to text me when something drops off line!!!  
- nice project ive set quite a few of these up

ps check me next email folks.... (after ive had a brew!)

wayne


On 15 Oct 2009, at 17:15, Ken Hough wrote:

> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 20:39:50 Wayne Ward wrote:
>> Just tested a fedora install on a virtual box - it never saw the  
>> drive
>> saw changed the chipset type from PIIX4 to PIIX3 and its working
>> must admit its very much the same as ubuntu from the outside
>
> Appearances Gnome and KDE aren't going to differ too much between  
> distros.
>
>
>> going to
>> look at administration tools on the system and then have a look at
>> dare i say it RPM ....
>
> Come on! Be brave!  :-)
>
> Seriously, RPM can be approached either via the basic 'rpm' tool, or  
> via a
> decent installation manager like (present day) Yast. In the former  
> case,
> dependencies are flagged up but not installed. In the later case,  
> just like
> under the Ububtu/Debian managers, all should be automatically  
> attended to.
>
> and for those who do not wish to use a GUI manager, Yast can run  
> under a
> terminal screen via ncurses.
>
> Red Hat and SUSE are both well respected at the corporate level, so  
> RPM can't
> be too bad.  ;-)
>
>> 6/10 for a install to many questions and giving a root password  
>> havent
>> done that for a while!!.. the boot screen just put me off full style
>> ive kept the iso incase anyone wants to see the install
>
> I have Fedora 10, Debian 5, Ubuntu 9, and other distros and OSes  
> installed
> under Virtual Box. I'm now reasonably comfortable with using  
> (playing with?)
> all of these distros, but I have yet to see any good reason to move  
> away from
> my present base system of openSUSE 11.1.
>
> To some extent it comes down to what one is used to. Let's face it,   
> all of
> the main stream distros are pretty damn good these days.
>
> I recommend that newbies DO NOT set about TRYING OUT various  
> distros. They are
> different and more or less guaranteed to confuse. Choose a distro  
> according
> to what you think is needed and at least to begin with, STICK WITH IT!
>
> Wayne, I'm not suggesting that you are a newbie. Perhaps you might  
> be ready
> for RPM.   ;-)  ;-)  ;-)
>
> Regards
>
>
> Ken Hough
>
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Regards,
Wayne ward

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Lancaster Computers

www.lancastercomputers.co.uk
wayne at lancastercomputers.co.uk

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