| Re: IDL 6.0 on Fedora Core 1 Linux [message #37045 is a reply to message #37043] |
Thu, 20 November 2003 10:04   |
Paul Hein
Messages: 6
Registered: November 2003
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An "Informed source at RSI" emailed me and this is what he said:
It's a good question. We're trying to figure that out ourselves...
I can tell some things right now:
1) We may test with RedHat Enterprise, but we don't want to
make it our standard reference platform. As you say, it's
expensive. To my mind, you might as well run Solaris
for that kind of $$$.
2) Fedora is a possibility, but it remains to be seen if it
will be as solid as Red Hat was, and we're waiting along
with everyone else to see.
3) For a couple of days, I thought that Suse might be the
answer, but then they got bought, and there are even more
questions about their future than there are for RedHat/Fedora...
4) Debian is a possibilty, but they are very slow to issue
updates, and their installation process is painful. I know
both of these are changing, but change takes time, and who
knows....
RedHat served an important purpose in the Linux community, even for
those who run other distributions. By establishing a solid least common
denominator, they brought order to that world. Pity they couldn't keep
doing it...
So, it's up in the air right now. Fortunately, there's no huge rush
to decide, and we can wait a bit to see how things shake out.
Our next release will probably be based on one of the already existing
RedHats, maybe even staying at RedHat 7.1 (it seems solid, and we've had
little or no compatability issues with other distros). Beyond that, we'll
watch events unfold, and try to pick the best one...
Please feel free to share this information with the newsgroup. The
opinions of the IDL Linux community are very important in figuring
out what we should do...
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