On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 08:30:13PM +0200, Gabriel Wicke wrote:
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 11:39 +0200, Camille Constans wrote:
According to http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1787 We may should install a debian Sarge on. If you want to do it jimmy, you can find iso image on ftp://ftp.lami.univ-evry.fr/debian-unofficial/sarge/ the first cd should be enought.
Did I say I love debian and his apt-get utility :) I use it at home for a year (sarge) and it works fine :) Very stable And with this, we dont have to care about security pbs, apt-get does the job :)
Echoing this preference, something as simple as installing ploticus takes something like an hour because one has to fix all the dependencies manually (not to mention there's no working deb available). In debian, the latest version 2.20 is there, even a separate doc package. Copy&pasting url's back and forth is just so backwards ;-)
I would volunteer to install debian on the new machines if there's a concensus in favour. The current apaches would profit from a kernel upgrade sooner or later as well, once the new machines are up one could migrate the other 1U servers to debian and upgrade to 2.6 as time permits.
That's a great idea - and please install it on all machines where texvc is running too, so we can have working Unicode in math mode.