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Subject: RE: [Operating System platforms] which one do you use?
From: Di Maio Franck <[email protected]>
To: Pavel Masloff <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS Tech Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:29:36 +0100 
Hi Pavel,

We use:
- RHEL 6.1, physical & virtual, and RHEL MRG-R 2.0 both with x86-64. 
- EPICS 3.14.12.2.
- Control System Studio (CSS) 3.1.
It works fine.

We prefer configuring controllers without CSS to avoid users starting BOY/BEAST on controllers (for resources reasons) but we also use RHEL for servers and operator stations.

Cheers,
Franck

Franck Di Maio
CODAC System Designer
CODAC Section

ITER Organization, Building 519/027, CHD, Control System Division
Route de Vinon sur Verdon - 13115 St Paul Lez Durance - France
Phone: +33 4 42 17 64 05

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Sichta [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 13 March 2012 14:16
To: Pavel Masloff
Cc: EPICS Tech Talk
Subject: Re: [Operating System platforms] which one do you use?

Pavel,
The popular OS for soft IOC is Linux-x86 and x86_64, WinXP_32 (can't comment on Win7, or 32/64 bit support).  For real-time: vxWorks, RTEMS, and a few years back there was a RHEL-based RedHawk Linux.  We use RHEL here for corporate reasons, but CentOS is supposed to be the same (only better/more current).

I'd be interested to hear what others say about CSS being better under Windows; I know it runs on Linux, and I vastly prefer to avoid Windows for controls applications.  Does CSS run on MacOS?

The IOC doesn't have a GUI, only a command line terminal.  The GUI (e.g. CSS) runs on a client machine.  Depending on your IOC's application, it should be OK to run the client (CSS) and server (IOC) on the same physical box.  Although, I have never done that.

-ps


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 08:34, Pavel Masloff <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I would like to know which operating system do you guys use as the 
> IOCs, and also on client machines? And why?
> Do you switch off GUI on IOCs? Do you use virtual systems? And how do 
> such systems influence the overall performance?
>
> As for me, I'm currently using linux-x86 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
> 5.5) run on a Virtual Machine, and win32-x86 (WinXP sp3) as a host system.
> I want to put aside the virtualized linux system for awhile and 
> install it as host. Am thinking about CentOS, since RHEL is not fully freeware.
> Am I right in presuming that the Windows platform is more suitable for 
> clients (CSS) rather than soft IOCs?
>
> Any input would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
>
> Pavel Maslov, MS
> Controls Engineer at Pulsed power Lab
> D.V. Efremov Institute for Electro-Physical Apparatus St. Petersburg, 
> Russia
>
> Mobile: +7 (951) 672 22 19
> Phone: +7 (812) 461 01 01
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