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  1. centos tracker! WAS Re:Direct download links by nfsilkey · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 Public Beta 1

    Erm, why not try a more legit-smelling tracker? ;)

    The CentOS project is serving the beta ISOs from their tracker, but Ill be damned if I can find the .torrent files served via CentOS. $random_blog_guy is serving some which link you up to the CentOS tracker.

    http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-i386-beta-dvd.torrent
    http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-ppc64-beta-dvd.torrent
    http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-x86_64-beta-dvd.torrent
    http://torrent.centos.org:6969/

    Sums check out. Waaaay faster than the smoldering ftp.redhat heap that were all machine-gunning. ;)

  2. centos tracker! WAS Re:Direct download links by nfsilkey · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 Public Beta 1

    Erm, why not try a more legit-smelling tracker? ;)

    The CentOS project is serving the beta ISOs from their tracker, but Ill be damned if I can find the .torrent files served via CentOS. $random_blog_guy is serving some which link you up to the CentOS tracker.

    http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-i386-beta-dvd.torrent
    http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-ppc64-beta-dvd.torrent
    http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-x86_64-beta-dvd.torrent
    http://torrent.centos.org:6969/

    Sums check out. Waaaay faster than the smoldering ftp.redhat heap that were all machine-gunning. ;)

  3. centos tracker! WAS Re:Direct download links by nfsilkey · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Red Hat Releases RHEL 6 Public Beta 1

    Erm, why not try a more legit-smelling tracker? ;)

    The CentOS project is serving the beta ISOs from their tracker, but Ill be damned if I can find the .torrent files served via CentOS. $random_blog_guy is serving some which link you up to the CentOS tracker.

    http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-i386-beta-dvd.torrent
    http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-ppc64-beta-dvd.torrent
    http://www.karan.org/stuff/rhel6-x86_64-beta-dvd.torrent
    http://torrent.centos.org:6969/

    Sums check out. Waaaay faster than the smoldering ftp.redhat heap that were all machine-gunning. ;)

  4. Re:Does CentOS or Fedora core work on these things by Ex-Linux-Fanboy · · Score: 1 · on 1 of 3 Dell Inspiron Mini Netbooks Sold With Linux

    You only have to compile on one machine. After that, I can think, off the top of my head, of two options:

    rsync

    scp (Make sure you don't encrypt your key on a secure machine so you can run this in a script without having to type in your passphrase every time)

    Or, if that bothers you, you can either roll your own RPM or use one of the various repositories out there on the net.

    My issue with Ubuntu is that they release a beta but call it "stable". I don't want to be a beta tester of broken software. I want software that works. This is why I like CentOS; it works as long as I'm using compatible hardware (cue my rant of how it's a pain to backport new drivers to older kernels).

  5. Inside scoop by dustwun · · Score: 1 · on The First Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed

    These have been in the hands of the testers a while (see date from blog below). As my friend puts it, it's 'geek porn' at this point. We all want to have the latest and greatest, but then.. so does the industry....

    http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2007/03/30/gee k_p0rn_how_big_is_your_drive

  6. Re:Does anyone even use this OS? by hughesjr · · Score: 5, Informative · on CentOS 5 Released

    Well ... it seems that the Fedora team (and Board Chairman) do not seem to share your opinion of CentOS (they must not have gotten the memo to hate CentOS before we shared a FOSDEM 2007 devroom). Also see:

    LinuxFormat Article

    I'm sure that Red Hat would be much better off if the people who want to install a free server did not install CentOS (which can easily run anything on RHEL later if support and a paid for OS is required) ... but instead used debian or ubuntu. Of course they wouldn't ... Red Hat benefits greatly because CentOS gets software installed that can easily move to their flag ship product when and if the time is right.

    Also, take a look at the Red Hat bugzilla sometime and do a search for CentOS. The code base gets seen / installed by many more people on many more pieces of hardware, many of which would not have installed on RHEL but some other free OS if CentOS were unavailable. This allows RH to get feedback and bug reports from many more people to stablize their codebase. All the time, RH does not need to provide any real support to this group of people.

    You can even argue that because of the popularity of CentOS combined with some big name 3rd party repositories like RPMForge and KBS CentOS Extras that a whole new need was demonstrated, and that the EPEL project was created to help fill that need. Again, Red Hat and RHEL users benefit greatly because of this colaboration.

    There are other numerous advantages as well ... but that is enough for now. No, Red Hat is not loosing sleep because CentOS exists ... indeed, quite the opposite.