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callummc:
It would be great if we are able to get a version of unRAID on a full Slackware distribution (Slackware or perhaps Salix?)  Or even just a set of the default source libraries + kernel config that could be used on a alternate distribution.

There are many people who go through the steps of building an unRAID kernel for each of the beta builds and I for one would be very keen on a 64bit version (I run MythTV etc on mine and it benefits from the 64 bit capabilities when trans-coding).

It's very useful if you want to run many of the software packages that are not available (or cannot be implemented) as unRAID add-ons.

Anyone else in this boat?

abs0lut.zer0:
does this take the usb stick os out of the equation, that has always been a selling point for me... ?

sacretagent:
well if we can have xbmc on that slackware then i would get on that trai too .. saves me a computer if i can use the unraid as HTPC

bubbaQ:
You should consider that unRAID is not an application ... it is an appliance. 

I have run unRAID on standard Slack distros including Slack64.  I wrote much of the wiki entry for running unRAID on a full Slack distro.  I ran all by unRAID boxen that way for years.  With 5.x, I am no longer doing that, because it is way too much hassle for minimal benefit.  Tom has been very accommodating in adding requested kernel config changes.  With the 5.x series, the plugin architecture provides the versatility I need w/o having to roll a custom kernel.  Plus, with a dev system properly configured, I can compile modules and move them over if really necessary, but again Tom has been very accommodating there too, so I still do it for testing, but once it works, Tom has added them to the next version.  I keep the dev system for testing and compiling other apps, like custom C code for controllers and utilities, but my unRAID boxen are going to be running stock unRAID once 5.x goes RTM.

Sure there are some special cases, but that set is shrinking.

Donovan:
Unraid is undoubtedly a very successful appliance.   As the original poster was suggesting, however, for us hard core geeks, a completely dedicated box feels partly a waste of a PC and electricity, when it could easily handle doing other things as well.

In my case, I have 6 IP cameras I want to monitor at home and it does not feel right to build a second Linux PC and have it consuming power 24/7 if I can put unraid and ZoneMinder on the very powerful existing unraid PC.  I have yet to setup such a system but it is something I want to do before too long. Should be interesting, since my other servers (both remote servers) are Ubuntu LTS and aside from a lot of Gentoo experience, Slackware will be completely new to me.


...Donovan

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