[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Straw poll: preferred Linux distributions for VMWare images?

[Paul Bartell]

I think either Ubuntu or Debian Etch. The How to on the wiki is a bit
sketchy on how to install on Etch so i havent tried.

On 4/16/07, Edward Corrado <corrado at tcnj.edu> wrote:
>
> > I've created a quick list of likely distributions below. I've pointed
> > to the latest stable  (or soon to be stable) versions because
> > Evergreen has some pretty leading edge requirements. I left commercial
> > distributions off the list because we probably wouldn't be able to
> > redistribute the images, and I for one don't have access to the
> > commercial distros. I've also left off non-Linux operating systems
> > because reports from Solaris and *BSD so far suggest that's more of a
> > porting effort for Evergreen than simply an install.
> >
> > Feel free to recommend other distros if you have a preference.
> >
> > * CentOS 5 (server distribution built from the source RPMs for Red Hat
> > Enterprise Linux 5, minus any copyrighted images or text)
> > * Debian 4.0 "Etch" (latest stable release of Debian, same distro used
> > by GPLS PINES)
> > * Fedora Core 7 (community distro sponsored by Red Hat that eventually
> > feeds into RHEL, FC 6 seems to be used by a number of people on the
> > list, but FC 7 is due at the end of May)
> > * Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty" (final release due any day now, almost a year
> > newer than 6.06 Dapper)
> > * OpenSUSE 10.2 (community distribution by Novell that eventually
> > feeds into SUSE Linux Enterprise Server)
> >
>
> Personally, I like Mandriva, but I guess my vote is for Debian Etch. I say
> that because it is what PINES is running on, and I'd prefer to run it/test
> it on what they use in production. As someone else alluded to if you are
> going to do a redhat type distro, CentOS seems like a better choice then
> Fedora because of the release schedule.
>
> Edward
>
>


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