OT: Running Linux with filePro

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010, Fairlight wrote:
>In the relative spacial/temporal region of Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 02:34:50PM
>-0400, D. Thomas Podnar achieved the spontaneous generation of the
>following:
>> Fedora changes so often, with so little regard for backwards
>> compatibility, that it is difficult and very expensive to try to support
>> it as a platform for commercial software. We stopped trying a long time
>> ago.
>
>I'm seconding this opinion.

Thirding!!

>> Those who like the Linux base under Fedora should strongly consider using
>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux if they are looking for vendor support, and
>> CentOS Linux if they want the same product, but with community support,
>> i.e. free unless you feel like sending something to the maintainers.
>
>Personally, I'd take CentOS and get a third party contractor.  Red Hat
>-breaks- things that should never be broken, and never fixes them.  Perl
>was broken on RHEL3 for at least three years.  RHEL5 shipped with a broken
>libexpat, and I needed to roll a parallel library against which XML::Parser
>for perl could actually be compiled.  The things they break, literally,
>take either extreme carelessness, hubris, or ineptitude to actually break.
>In the case of libexpat, it's hard to screw up "./configure;make;make
>install", but they did it.  It's hard to screw up "./Configure -D;make;make
>test;make install" with perl, but they did it.
>
>Yet, CentOS doesn't have these problems.
>
I got turned off RH back in my Caldera days as RH frequently
released it with incompatible libraries and such.  We went from
Caldera to SuSE then to CentOS when we couldn't get decent
support from Novell even though we were ``Partners''.

I just retired our main server here after a chipset fan failure
after 1,390 days uptime on SuSE Linux Enterprise 10.  It's now
running CentOS 5.latest in the same chassis with new main board,
HD, and power supply with the original HD mounted to facilitate
transferring data an such.

FWIW, My business is Linux consulting.

...
>> FWIW, based on long Linux experience.
>
>Ditto since 1993 (kernel 0.99.9pld, SlackWare -before- 1.0), and I support
>your observations, by and large.

Our first mission critical commercial Linux installation was in
September 1997 on Caldera whatever was current at the time.  My
first *nix system was Radio Shack Xenix in 1982 when I was
managing the Radio Shack Computer Center in Rockville, Maryland.
Before that I worked on main frames, mostly Burroughs Medium and
Large Systems.

>My recommendation, -especially- for servers, is CentOS.  I've been running
>them for over a year now, and I've also done in-place upgrades from 5.3 to
>5.4 and 5.5, and -nothing- has broken.  It's solid, doesn't force you to
>put a GUI on a server (although you can if you like), it's lightweight
>compared to something like SuSE/OpenSuSE, and the distribution channels are
>plentiful and fast.  Considering it's based on RH's codebase, it's
>remarkably sane by comparison.

Agreed.

FWIW, my project this afternoon is to test an iPad with iSSH
against my Unify based accounting software to see how the iPad
works as a data entry device with a Microsoft 6000 bluetooth
mobile keyboard and separate keypad.  I'll try it with FilePro
once I'm done with that.

Bill
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