Linux question

[Fairlight]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 07:41:32PM -0400, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Jay Ashworth cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> Yeah, there's a RedHat 9 specific problem, IIRC.  If you can't find it

The main problem being that RH9 is EOL, and therefore no longer being
patched, updated, or otherwise supported.

> in the archive (do we have an archive right now?) and no one pops up
> with the specifics, I'll dig it up for you.

As I recall, it had to do with displaying correctly, and some 1l8n
settings.

> RH9 is EOL shortly, though, if not already.  I'd recommend SuSE 9.0 or

Went that way April 30.

> Mandrake 10 for production systems; no doubt other people will have
> other opinions.

SuSE 9.0 is my recommendation.  I would avoid 9.1 for now because it's
based on the 2.6 kernel that is far too new and tempermental for production
work yet.  It's also just plain spankin' new itself by about a month and a
half.  Wait five months on 9.1 yet, give or take.

> And I'll ask, again, a question I expected an answer to here a month
> ago and didn't get one:

Where do you think you are, Radio Shack?!  :)

> With the demise of reasonably priced RedHat products, what is the new
> target distribution for filePro on Linux?

You mean what do they build it on?  Or what are they recommending?  So long
as you install libtermcap (.so.2) and have glibc 2.1 or later, it shouldn't
really matter what you run it on, to my knowledge.  Those are the only
requirements I'm aware of.  The libtermcap wasn't always an issue.  I think
that came about at 5.0.13, when they had to recompile it dynamically to get
around an issue or two.  I want to say .10 or .13, but I think can't
remember which.

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