[olug] SuSE or RHEL or Centos or Fedora or Xandros

[Sean Edwards]

Debian and Slackware are missing from the list.

-=Sean Edwards=-
cybersean3000 at yahoo.com


--- Brian Roberson <roberson at olug.org> wrote:

> 
> I can only comment on the Suse section's - but
> thought I would post anyways ( see inline )
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 08:19:01AM -0500, Michael
> Peterson Wireless wrote:
> > 
> > SuSE 9.1 Pro
> > 
> > Overall:
> > Good desktop but missing some things out of the
> box.
> 
> like what? ( other than dvd / mp3 support due to
> licensing issues )
> 
> 
> > Does provide newest MySQL packages.
> > Possible okay server ( many olug users have been
> able to get it to work
> > properly ).
> 
> Works like a champ - Only issue I have really had
> thus far is with ipsec, 
> and that is a kernel issue semi-resolved with the
> latest patch. details:
> 2.6 has ipsec native support ; but most existing
> linux based solutions such
> as the linksys *v* series gateways use 2.4 and
> free/swan, which can have 
> unexpected results connecting to 2.6 ipsec
> implementation, and this is really 
> only on unique wan connection types, notably pppOE 
> 
> 
> > 
> > My Results:
> > Major problems when I try to have it run with 2
> NIC cards and run normal
> > services.
> > This might be 2.6 issues that hopefully get
> resolved.
> > Built-in firewall has issues with running 2 NIC
> cards.
> > Replaced with custom firewall used by other olug
> users and still had issues.
> 
> multihomed servers are fine, the SuSE firewall (
> configurable via "yast firewall" ) tries to be as
> basic
> as possible, I can safely assure you that the
> problem you may have is simply misconfiguration.
> may I ask what "issues" did you encounter?
> 
> > PHP/ MySQL does not work on reboot after working
> fine before reboot.
> 
> I am assuming this statement is reading as: apache
> and or mysql do not start after reboot....
> try these out:
> "man chkconfig"
> or
> "yast runlevel"
> 
> 
> > Cdrecord does not see IDE CDR/CDRW drive.
> 
> this tricked me up at first as well, not really a
> suse issue, more of a cdrecord/2.6 kernel interface 
> change issue. try something like:
> 
> jbod:~ # cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus
> Cdrecord-Clone-dvd 2.01a27 (i686-suse-linux)
> Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schil
> ling
> Note: This version is an unofficial (modified)
> version with DVD support
> Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not
> present in the original.
> Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
> http://www.suse.de/feedback
> Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered
> with problems in this version.
> scsidev: 'ATA'
> devname: 'ATA'
> scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
> Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport
> code version (okir at suse.de-
> scsi-linux-sg.c-1.80-resmgr-patch
> '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c  1.80 04/03/08 Copyright
> 1997 J. Schilling').
> scsibus1:
>         1,0,0   100) 'CREATIVE' 'DVD-ROM DVD1241E'
> '0.39' Removable CD-ROM
>         1,1,0   101) 'VERBATIM' '481248AL        '
> 'V8S2' Removable CD-ROM
>         1,2,0   102) *
>         1,3,0   103) *
>         1,4,0   104) *
>         1,5,0   105) *
>         1,6,0   106) *
>         1,7,0   107) *
> jbod:~ #
> 
> 
> so in my case, I use "cdrecord dev=ATA:1,1,0
> speed=48 -isosize someimage.iso"
> -- or
> "k3b" - an excellent kde burning app
> 
> 
> 
> 
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