On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Rankin, SE (Stephen) wrote:
> All,
>
> 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!
We are switching to White Box Linux initially
(http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/). This is RHEL without the proprietary
RedHat extensions (and so is free).
Also, it should be easy to create RPMs and debian packages from the cvs
tree.
Are we any closer to having a list of the GPL Starlink packages?
--
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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