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Subject: Re: Flavors of Linux
From: "Kevin M. Peterson" <[email protected]>
To: Emmanuel Mayssat <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:42:10 -0600
How do you keep Red Hat 8 up-to-date? Red Hat 8 is no longer supported by Red Hat.
www.fedoralegacy.org suspended it's Red Hat 8 support earlier than it had originally claimed
it would.


Older versions of Red Hat had reasonable lifetimes, but the rate at which Fedora Core is
released (2-3 times per year) makes the Red Hat/Fedora Core line much less appealing.


Kevin Peterson
UNICAT
[email protected]
(630) 252-0869


At 02:08 PM 2/22/2005 -0800, Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:
In our case it is 3rd party support that made us go with Red Hat 8.
If you have devices that will be running on the host, then you want to make sure that you have the kernel module that go with them.


If for example you have frame grabbers, then you want corresponding vendor to have QAed the hardware on this linux platform. Ultimately you want them to support it as well.

Red Hat is a sure bet.


I suspect that any of the major distributions can do the job. It would seem to make the most sense for us to go with the flavor of Linux with the largest user base in the EPICS community.

-- Emmanuel Mayssat Lyncean Technologies, Inc. Direct: 650/320-8300 x409 Cell: 650/793-0626




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Re: Flavors of Linux Steven Hartman
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Re: Flavors of Linux Geoff Savage
Flavors of Linux Gary P Carr
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