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On 8/17/07, Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org> wrote: > OK, so what makes Ubuntu particularly cool for this, as opposed > to Debian or Red Hat or any other distro? libata support was around in Ubuntu before RHEL5/CentOS-5 came out. So, before RHEL5, we were utilizing Ubuntu. When CentOS-5 was finally released (after much delay), we switched back to it because the version of Ubuntu we were using was not an LTS release. When 8.04 LTS appears, we may want to switch for the new Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS). Ubuntu is the only distro, to my knowledge, that includes VMware Server in their repositories, which is another added benefit. Since we rely on this stuff, it is useful to get automated security fixes/updates to the packages if we like. This means we don't have to grunt through the pain of their tar.gz or RPM release, which sometimes has problems with the kernel, as anyone who has configured VMware before knows. Sometimes your vmmon module will not build correctly due to kernel changes :-) Now we don't have to worry about patching VMware with any-any and/or working around a new kernel which is incompatible by default... -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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