Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

At IPNS we have been using RedHat Linux as an EPICS client & as a boot
host to IOCs since ~1997-1998.  This covers versions going back to at
least RH 4.  This has gone very well for us except when major versions
change something drastic.  Generally this just required recompile.
Currently we are using RHEL 3.

Looking towards version 4 we are experiencing some problems with X.
Redhat seems to be moving from XFree86 to X.org X-server.  This is
causing some problems for us with programs like medm.  We are still
looking for some of the solution to this.  I will try to post more on
this as we unravel things.

John Hammonds
Data Acquisition Systems Manager
Intense Pulsed Neutron Source
[email protected]
(630)252-5317

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary P Carr [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Flavors of Linux

We are starting to look at converting our EPICS control system from
Solaris
8 to Linux.

Has anyone in the EPICS community ever done a survey of who is using

Linux

for EPICS, and what flavor/type of Linux they are using (RedHat,

Fedora,

SuSI, Debian, Mandrake, etc).

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.

Replies:

Re: Flavors of Linux Ralph Lange

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