Dear Alex, Thanks for your suggestion. I would be very interested in try RPMs with DEBs, and will shoot an email to Todd soon.
Best, Arber On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Alex Loddengaard <[email protected]> wrote: > RPMs won't work on Ubuntu, but we're almost finished with DEBs, which will > work on Ubuntu. Shoot Todd an email if you want to try out our DEBs: > > <[email protected]> > > Are you asking about choosing a Linux distribution? The problem with > Ubuntu > is that it changes very frequently and generally uses relatively new > software, making it a great desktop distribution, but perhaps not as good > of > a stable server distribution. (Note that the LTS Ubuntu releases are > supported longer but still user newer, possibly unstable software.) I > think > that the majority of Linux server people use Redhat derivatives, in > particular RHEL and CentOS, as they're not updated frequently and use > stable > software (RHEL costs money; CentOS is free). That said, CentOS is annoying > to administer if you're hoping to use a version of Python newer than 2.4. > I'm sure that the Debian people on this list will yell at me for saying > Redhat derivatives are the majority, but we'll see I guess. > > So anyway, give Todd a shout if you want to try DEBs out. Otherwise, if > you're interested in going down the Redhat derivative route (Fedora, RHEL, > CentOS), you can use the RPMs. > > Alex > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Yabo-Arber Xu <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Thanks for all your help, especially Asteem's detailed instruction. It > > works > > now! > > > > Alex: I did not use RPMs, but several of my existing nodes are installed > > with Ubuntu. Is there any diff on running Hadoop on Ubuntu? I am thinking > > of > > choosing one before I started scaling up the cluster, but not sure which > > one > > benefit from long-term, i.e. get more support etc. > > > > Best > > Arber > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Puri, Aseem <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > cat ~/.ssh/master-key.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys > > > > > >
