On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Malcolm J. Currie wrote:
> Are people happy with the choice of operating systems and compilers used
> for the Nightly Builds? Some are quite old. For example we're still
> running Solaris 9, RHEL 3, Tru 64 5.1A rather than Solaris 10, RHEL 4,
> Tru 64, 5.1B-3 respectively.
I'd vote for not upgrading Solaris and Tru64, there seems little point and
downwards compatibility is probably better for these (more old versions
than new versions around in my experience).
> Debian hasn't run since Duncan allegedly decommissioned the machine it
> used to run on. If we were to run another flavour of Linux, which
> should it be: Ubuntu, Debian, Scientific Linux, Mandrake, WhiteBox...?
Or, Fedora Core? Debian, RHEL/SL and FC are probably the most used,
judging from comments in STARMAN from time-to-time.
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