Karanbir Singh - Thinkability - Latest Comments on HP ProLiant Servers and CentOS

Peter [Visitor] in response to: HP ProLiant Servers and CentOS

Peter [Visitor] — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:41:15 +0000

I personally use the HP Software Delivery Repository. You can find it at:

http://downloads.linux.hp.com/SDR/downloads/

markl [Visitor] in response to: HP ProLiant Servers and CentOS

markl [Visitor] — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:05:57 +0000

I think this shows what a bit of lobbying of your suppliers will do... We've long been frustrated by the fact that HP (and a lot of other hardware vendors) write RPMs that will only install on RHEL because they expect some specific information in /etc/redhat-release. and have been asking for this for a while (I don't claim that we are the only ones who've been asking for this; I've no doubt other users have had the same gripes too).

My only question is as to why the CentOS version has to be any different from a generic Enterprise Linux version - are they going to produce a version for Oracle Enterprise Linux as well?

Hopefully we can use this as leverage to get IBM to fix similar issues with their support RPMs....

Andrew [Visitor] in response to: HP ProLiant Servers and CentOS

Andrew [Visitor] — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:57:19 +0000

Sweet. I use HP Proliant servers with CentOS. It's nice to see them acknowledge it (even though I don't use iLo and the other advanced/enterprise features).

The HP Raid Array command line util for Red Hat has always worked on my CentOS boxes, though the package dependencies can be a bit of a bear. Hope fully this will encourage them to better support CentOS and other community Linux distros.