[WBEL-users] I finally made the big step and switched my workstation over to WB 3.0 Respin 1

[Conor Wynne]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 12:38, Van Loggins wrote:
> I have been using Fedora Core on my workstation at work, but I have been 
> less than happy with Fedora Core 2, a recent kernel upgrade completely 
> broke my ability to burn CDs and the last batch of updates completely 
> broke CUPS on this system. I'm more familiar with using Redhat than 
> using any of the other distributions of Linux and I wanted to stay with 
> using something that I could use without a lot of problems.
> 
> I've tried out Whitebox in the past and I liked how it performed, and I 
> had most recently used whitebox to deploy a remote SSH server here at 
> work that is running like a top.
> 
> So I decided to load Whitebox Linux 3.0 Respin 1 on my workstation.
> 
> I'm on disk 2 and eagerly looking forward to seeing how well it works 
> for me on this Celeron 2.6 GHz system with 640 MB of ram. :)

For a workstation, fedora will be faster with its fancy 2.6 kernel. 
RHEL/WBEL is all about stability, not necessarily speed. 

I would like to run the 2.6 kernel on wbel, just for the swappiness
feature in 2.6, I am now running 2.4.21-20xxx which seems to have
resolved the excessive swapping on the default 2.4.21-15xx Respin 1
kernel. 

Free now says:
[root@p3000 html]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:       1027532     968116      59416          0     170228    
493552
-/+ buffers/cache:     304336     723196
Swap:       524280       2436     521844

As opposed to almost entirely using up my swap space :)

> 
> will send an update later on today.
-- 
Conor Wynne
Dublin
Irlande