[WBEL-users] Product Comparison statements for rebuttal

[csieh]

Lamar,

You can build your own i586 kernel and include it in your own "site 
customization" and have i586 support.

One of the main advantages of Scientific Linux is the fact that YOU can 
customize it to your sites needs.

If you need help on doing this send me private mail.

-Connie Sieh
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Lamar Owen wrote:

> On Wednesday 05 January 2005 22:54, csieh wrote:
> > The stray allows for you to create your RHEL release out of Scientific
> > Linux.   This allows you to make your own release quite easily.
> 
> I'm probably getting ready to do just that for PARI's needs.  I have been 
> running SL303 for some time on a couple of workstations, and like it.  Needs 
> IRAF, but that's a different story....
> 
> The only headache is lack of i586 support.  I have a dozen headless i586 boxes 
> that I want to rackmount for video capture/CCTV devices, along with other 
> uses.  They are Agilent custom boards using AMD's K6-2/300 processor, and 
> work only with a serial console.  They have PCI and ISA slots, and seem to 
> work pretty well.  The SL serial console support is great on i686, but it 
> won't install at all on i586 (K6-2 is i586).  I may be getting more of these 
> cheap (like $20 each cheap), they have 128MB of SDRAM and 4GB HD's (plus a 
> flash drive on the mainboard; might make a good cluster boot drive).
> 
> For lots of reasons I'd like to standardize on a single dist if possible 
> (maintaining only one local YUM repo, for instance).
> 
> WBEL I think still supports install on i586, but I've not tried the serial 
> console support in the installer as yet.
>