Re: Flavors of Linux

["Kevin M. Peterson" <kmpeters@anl.gov>]

How do you keep Red Hat 8 up-to-date?  Red Hat 8 is no longer supported by 
Red Hat.
www.fedoralegacy.org suspended it's Red Hat 8 support earlier than it had 
originally claimed
it would.

Older versions of Red Hat had reasonable lifetimes, but the rate at which 
Fedora Core is
released (2-3 times per year) makes the Red Hat/Fedora Core line much less 
appealing.

Kevin Peterson
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At 02:08 PM 2/22/2005 -0800, Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:
> In our case it is 3rd party support that made us go with Red Hat 8.
> If you have devices that will be running on the host, then you want to 
> make sure that you have the kernel module that go with them.
>
> If for example you have frame grabbers, then you want corresponding vendor 
> to have QAed the hardware on this linux platform. Ultimately you want them 
> to support it as well.
>
> Red Hat is a sure bet.
>
>
> > > I suspect that any of the major distributions can do the job. It would 
> > > seem to make the most sense for us to go with the flavor of Linux with 
> > > the largest user base in the EPICS community.
>
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