Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Tang, Johnny Y." <[email protected]> · Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:00:42 -0500

Other reason to spend money on commercial distribution is that :
Allow you to point to commercial experts to resolve your system problems in timely fashion when you don't have the man power in the house :)

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From: [email protected] on behalf of john sinclair
Sent: Wed 2/23/2005 11:19 AM
To: EPICS tech-talk
Subject: Re: Flavors of Linux

This is, of course, the only reason for using the Redhat commercial
distribution.

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 3:27 pm, Steven Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Kevin M. Peterson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> This is one of the reasons I am sticking with Solaris for most of my EPICS
> related workstations. Having to upgrade the OS on key systems that
> frequently is just not practical.
>
> For the few linux EPICS systems I am using, I'm currently using CentOS 3.3
> (www.centos.org) which is a RHEL rebuild.

--
John Sinclair

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System