Re: [CentOS] intrusive chrome [was: Re: clicking on link in Thunderbird fails to open page in Firefox]

2014-01-01 Thread me
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:54 AM, wrote: >> >> On 12/30/2013, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >>> If so, the recent xorg-x11-server updates require that you rebuild (or >>> reinstall) the drivers as those drivers replace some xorg files and if >>> you do not reinst

Re: [CentOS] Centos-compatible motherboards

2014-01-01 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 26/12/13 06:05, John R Pierce wrote: > that listing is nearly useless for this.it doesn't contain > motherboards, it contains complete brand name systems that were > submitted for paid testing. What is so bad for paid testings? If it was tested for a reasonable usage it's fine. If you have a

Re: [CentOS] Centos-compatible motherboards

2014-01-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/1/2014 12:50 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > On 26/12/13 06:05, John R Pierce wrote: >> >that listing is nearly useless for this.it doesn't contain >> >motherboards, it contains complete brand name systems that were >> >submitted for paid testing. > What is so bad for paid testings? > If it

Re: [CentOS] Centos-compatible motherboards

2014-01-01 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 01/01/14 23:09, John R Pierce wrote: > > my point is, the coverage of that hardware listing on the redhat site is > woefully inadequate for the needs of the OP. NO motherboards or > chipsets are listed, just complete systems, mostly servers. Even the > HP DL160gen8 servers I just bought for

Re: [CentOS] Centos-compatible motherboards

2014-01-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/1/2014 2:02 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > Indeed the HP DL160gen8 might not be in the list.. > I am sure that a Xeon CPU from the E5-2600 product family should work > and meet Linux Desktop and Server. I'm glad you're so sure (and yes in fact, it did work...), but my original point remains

Re: [CentOS] Centos-compatible motherboards

2014-01-01 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 02/01/14 00:13, John R Pierce wrote: > I'm glad you're so sure (and yes in fact, it did work...), but my > original point remains, thehttp://hardware.redhat.com listings are > nearly useless. For who? Eliezer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Centos-compatible motherboards

2014-01-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/1/2014 2:56 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > On 02/01/14 00:13, John R Pierce wrote: >> >I'm glad you're so sure (and yes in fact, it did work...), but my >> >original point remains, thehttp://hardware.redhat.com listings are >> >nearly useless. > For who? for the original poster, who was askin

Re: [CentOS] Centos-compatible motherboards

2014-01-01 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 02/01/14 01:19, John R Pierce wrote: > for the original poster, who was asking on this thread which > motherboards would work, as the hardware.redhat.com site doesn't list > motherboards. > > and useless for me, when they don't include the major brand server > models I might be considering for w

[CentOS] I want to ask about some Kernel level operations.

2014-01-01 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
I want to make sure that while compiling as root nothing will break down inside the machine. I want to compile software on a Xeon SERVER. The basic issue is that there is a recommendation to not compile it as a root user. I have compiled software as a root user more then once and I am not sure

Re: [CentOS] Centos-compatible motherboards

2014-01-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/1/2014 3:42 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > Just to make sure I understand the question again: > PC and Servers hardware is suppose to be BIOS compatible? > In a case that these do comply and Linux is not supporting BIOS it's > another story. huh? the BIOS is nearly irrelevant, its code is use

Re: [CentOS] I want to ask about some Kernel level operations.

2014-01-01 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 01:53:09 +0200 Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > I have compiled software as a root user more then once and I am not sure > why would there is a need to run it as non-root user? 1. Bad Things™ happen sometimes. If you are root, Worse Things™ can happen than what might happen if yo

Re: [CentOS] intrusive chrome [was: Re: clicking on link in Thunderbird fails to open page in Firefox]

2014-01-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/01/14 16:26, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: > On Tue, 31 Dec 2013, Akemi Yagi wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:54 AM, wrote: >>> >>> On 12/30/2013, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> If so, the recent xorg-x11-server updates require that you rebuild (or reinstall) the drivers as those drivers r

[CentOS] RHEL Load Balancer Add-on vs KeepAlived

2014-01-01 Thread Dimitar Georgievski
Hello, I've started reviewing HA solution for HAProxy and trying to decide between RHEL HA Add-on and KeeAlived. Just curious if anyone had a chance to use any of these technologies in a production environment? I would love to learn what your experience with these technologies is in terms of manag

Re: [CentOS] I want to ask about some Kernel level operations.

2014-01-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/1/2014 3:53 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > I have compiled software as a root user more then once and I am not sure > why would there is a need to run it as non-root user? Its the principle of least privilege. You don't need to be root to compile software, or to test software in a local dire

Re: [CentOS] I want to ask about some Kernel level operations.

2014-01-01 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey John, Thanks! On 02/01/14 02:14, John R Pierce wrote: > Its the principle of least privilege. > > You don't need to be root to compile software, or to test software in a > local directory, you only need root privileges to install it to a system > directory. When you're developing, building,

Re: [CentOS] Centos-compatible motherboards

2014-01-01 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
The BIOS is what the hardware is based upon and the testing of a Mother-Board should be started at the BIOS level. The Basic Input Output for today hardware is basically based on USB even for many servers. There are cases which you see a system that CentOS6 was not designed to work with. Not j