Peter W. Draper wrote on 23 March 2004 16:35:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote:
>
> > The question of Linux distributions has gathered speed again on the
> > STARMAN list. I was hoping that there would be a mutual agreement
> > between the site managers and Starlink, but as someone pointed out
> > to me, we have a wider audience to consider. So I would like to
> > have everyone's opinion.
> >
> > I thought of having RHEL as the main supported and tested system.
> > Fedora and Debian built distributions can be checked to see if the
> > software builds and just some basic tests run.
> >
> > The above suggestion did not go down to well on the STARMAN list!
>
> I don't see anything wrong with what you outline, however,
> from following the STARMAN discussion it's not clear to me
> that the objectors have really understood what we're
> offering, i.e. several binary releases, but with one
> preferred one and in the longer term, please yourself. They
> seem to think we're offering (or more likely imposing) one
> and that's it. They might rightly want to have some say about
> the preferred one (which they will not be able to agree on),
> so since they are having a meeting early next month, what's
> the sudden hurry, let's relax and wait and make sure the
> message coming from us is right.
I agree with Peter! They won't be able to agree on a distribution so it's
probably just going to provoke them to suggest that we have any vastly
"preferred" one. We may HAVE one internally but the only way to go is to say
that's it's all tested to reasonable levels on a few popular distributions.
Some people didn't like Redhat even before it became RHEL. I'm personally
planning to try FC2 when it comes out.
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