CentOS 5 sucks.

O.M.G. CentOS sucks? Noo! We've been using it for years! It's been great! What's the problem?

Well, i've got a couple of problems with it. The first is that it's so incredibly old. It's running 2.6.18, which was released in 2006. It doesn't have a pile of stuff that is in modern kernels (drbd? And they even missed it in RHEL6, too - sigh), and it has odd and strange bugs.

The bug that has irritated me today is that it's impossible to connect two machines together, with a bonded interface, without going through a switch. That's just not on. It's adding a single point of failure, and is just plain silly.

Also, the bonding interface always thinks that the Broadcom NICs are working at 100mbit, and the Intel NIC's at 1000mbit.

I'm installing Scientific Linux 6 now. CentOS 6 is due out 'soon' (which they've been saying since December - it's now May) but I'm not holding my breath.

So, Scientific Linux 6, here we come.

I realised need a blog.

To keep everyone up with what's going on.

Whilst I'm doing the basic developing and testing, I'll be trying to keep this blog up to date with new and interesting things. I admit, I have a terrible record for blogging. I get all enthusiastic about it, and then go 'meh, this is too technical to try to unexplain'.

So I'm going to not bother with unexplaining, unless I feel unusually verbose. Be warned.