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I can't help but notice you're asking almost exactly the wrong people. People on the riak-users mailing list are by definition the choir. As someone who work

by cagenut 15y ago

I can't help but notice you're asking almost exactly the wrong people. People on the riak-users mailing list are by definition the choir. As someone who works somewhere that looked into riak, here was my first impression: [root@brandt ~]# yum install riak <snip> No package riak available. Error: Nothing to do

seancribbs 15y ago
Apparently it's too hard to download yourself? wget http://downloads.basho.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/riak/1.1/1.1.2/riak-1.1.2-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uvh riak-1.1.2-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
pharkmillups 15y ago
This is a good point. There is some selection bias here for sure (a lot of the people on the mailing list have adopted Riak already). That said, the opinion of those who have committed time to Riak is definitely important. If you have the emails of 1000 people who tried and didn't use Riak for various reasons, please let me know. I would love to talk to them. :) More importantly, we need to get a a proper yum package built and maintained. In the meantime, this should get you started. http://wiki.basho.com/Installing-on-RHEL-and-CentOS.html http://wiki.basho.com/Installing-on-RHEL-and-CentOS.html
nosequel 15y ago
You should read this as an example why many software vendors don't bother with trying to get their packages into distributions' package repositories. http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2012/03/16/why-you-should-stop-fighting-distro-vendors/ http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2012/03/16/why-you-should-stop-fi...
Jare 15y ago
I'm going to get murdered for saying this, but lack of Windows support has kept me from casual tinkering with Riak.
mhluongo 15y ago
While early adopters are the "choir", they often feel the same pain as other potential users, and found ways to get over it. They're such a great resource because you can ask them what hurt the most.
mhluongo 15y ago
While early adopters are the "choir", they often feel the same pain as other potential users, and found ways to get over it. They're such a great resource because you can ask them what hurt the most.

by cagenut 15y ago

seancribbs 15y ago

Apparently it's too hard to download yourself? wget http://downloads.basho.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/riak/1.1/1.1.2/riak-1.1.2-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uvh riak-1.1.2-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm

pharkmillups 15y ago

This is a good point. There is some selection bias here for sure (a lot of the people on the mailing list have adopted Riak already). That said, the opinion of those who have committed time to Riak is definitely important. If you have the emails of 1000 people who tried and didn't use Riak for various reasons, please let me know. I would love to talk to them. :) More importantly, we need to get a a proper yum package built and maintained. In the meantime, this should get you started. http://wiki.basho.com/Installing-on-RHEL-and-CentOS.html http://wiki.basho.com/Installing-on-RHEL-and-CentOS.html

nosequel 15y ago

You should read this as an example why many software vendors don't bother with trying to get their packages into distributions' package repositories. http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2012/03/16/why-you-should-stop-fighting-distro-vendors/ http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2012/03/16/why-you-should-stop-fi...

Jare 15y ago

I'm going to get murdered for saying this, but lack of Windows support has kept me from casual tinkering with Riak.

mhluongo 15y ago

While early adopters are the "choir", they often feel the same pain as other potential users, and found ways to get over it. They're such a great resource because you can ask them what hurt the most.

mhluongo 15y ago

While early adopters are the "choir", they often feel the same pain as other potential users, and found ways to get over it. They're such a great resource because you can ask them what hurt the most.