Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

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Mauro Giacchini

Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro
V.le dell'Universita', 2
35020 LEGNARO (PD) - ITALY
Tel./Fax. +39.049.8068558


EPICS _at_ LNL http://www.lnl.infn.it/~epics/

...the first EPICS installation to the project SPES realized from the
scratch in ITALY is in production since begin 2010!!

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Dear all,

Could you recommend me a stable Linux distribution for EPICS development? 

I have recently gotten an industrial 19" PC. It has a Core2Duo processor, (x86-64), 4 Gigs of RAM. I have been using Fedora 17, RHEL 5.5 and SL 5 on a 32-bit machine, but never the 64bit system.

What do you make of CentOS? Which version is more or less stable? Which systems do you use?

Also, would the 64 bit system give better performance?

You insights would be very much appreciated.

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Best regards,


Pavel Maslov, MS
Controls Engineer at Pulsed power Lab
Efremov Institute for Electro-Physical Apparatus
St. Petersburg, Russia

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