Re: Machine available for community use

Where in Texas? I might be able to assist on-site if needed (though I
don't know much about linuxes).

On Jul 25, 2007, at 11:31 AM, Gavin M. Roy wrote:

> One thing to take into account is I dont have physical access to the
> box (It is in TX, I am in PA). All installs but Gentoo will be
> performed by a well trained NOC monkey. *cough*
>
> On 7/25/07, Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > ------- Original Message -------
>> > From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
>> > To: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
>> > Sent: 25/07/07, 18:54:50
>> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Machine available for community use
>> >
>> > Another fairly big issue is that we need to know whether
>> measurements we
>> > take in August are comparable to measurements we take in
>> October, so a
>> > fairly stable platform is important. As you say, a fast-
>> changing kernel
>> > would make it difficult to have any confidence about
>> comparability over
>> > time. That would tend to make me vote for RHEL/Centos, where
>> long-term
>> > stability is an explicit development goal. Debian stable might
>> do too,
>> > though I'm not as clear about their update criteria as I am
>> about Red Hat's.
>>
>> Perhaps RH could donate us a RHEL/RHN licence for this?
>>
>> /D
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