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Subject: Re: Flavors of Linux
From: Ralph Lange <[email protected]>
To: EPICS Tech Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 09:43:37 +0100
The main problem being that for many commercial tools that you might want to use (RDBs, debuggers, ...) RedHat (or one of the others) is the only supported Linux distribution. Some things may run on other flavours, others won't, and you will hardly get support on a different distribution.

BESSY is also slowly moving from HP-UX to Linux. We try to use Debian as the main platform for the desktop, server and control room machines, but we will have to stick with Suse (for Oracle) and RedHat (for Rational Purify) as well. So the move to Linux does not really simplify system administration. Which really hurts, but we don't see an easier solution.

Ralph


D. Peter Siddons wrote:


My feeling with RedHat is that they are wannabe Microsofts, so they are differentiating themselves from the rest as much as possible. I prefer to stick with something more open. The move to 'Enterprise' tells it all.
Pete.



Hammonds, John P. wrote:


At IPNS we have been using RedHat Linux as an EPICS client & as a boot
host to IOCs since ~1997-1998.  This covers versions going back to at
least RH 4.  This has gone very well for us except when major versions
change something drastic.  Generally this just required recompile.
Currently we are using RHEL 3.

Looking towards version 4 we are experiencing some problems with X.
Redhat seems to be moving from XFree86 to X.org X-server.  This is
causing some problems for us with programs like medm.  We are still
looking for some of the solution to this.  I will try to post more on
this as we unravel things.


John Hammonds Data Acquisition Systems Manager Intense Pulsed Neutron Source [email protected] (630)252-5317





References:
RE: Flavors of Linux Hammonds, John P.
Re: Flavors of Linux D. Peter Siddons

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