Recent content by TeeJayHoward

2.4.20 4 lief! These days I just use whatever kernel is included during my monthly yum update. I've given up on having a lean system. No point anymore.

^ Like these guys, I typically use the stuff built-in to a minimal install. Screen is something I install on every instance I build - its utility can't be argued. At work we use SecureCRT to connect to multiple SSH sessions and I'm pretty happy with it. PuTTY is my home-use choice for Windows...

I've got a Supermicro MicroCloud 5038ML-H8TRF in my basement with eight nodes: Xeon E3 v3 32GB (4x8GB) 16GB SataDOM for ESXi 128GB SSD 2TB HDD ConnectX-2 40Gb Infiniband (Soon to be converted to 10GbE via QSA adapters) They're interconnected right now via a Mellanox IS5024 Infiniband switch...

CentOS on all my servers. We use RHEL almost exclusively at work, and my previous job was a toss up between RHEL and OEL, so keeping my Red Hat skills up to date is pretty big for me. That being said, my heart belongs to Debian.

My experience so far has been negative. My Connect-X2 cards no longer support Infiniband mode, and I don't have a 10GbE switch to connect them to for EN mode, so I basically lost my high speed network. The GUI is nice. I'll give it that. Huge step up from 6.0, and almost as nice as the old 5.x...