Re: MV on Ubuntu
- From: Anthony.Youngman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:21:47 -0800 (PST)
On Nov 21, 2:44 am, "GlenB" <batchelg.remov...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
With the release frenzy on Ubuntu I'd never consider it for a criticalI've been active on the LSB, which is SUPPOSED to solve your problems
server. Maybe the server version is a bit more version stable? I've had no
reason to try it. I tend to lean towards Debian for a stable Linux O/S. If
you want an up-to-date desktop, Ubuntu is nice due to the current versions
of kernels, hardware drivers, and software. I don't think they spend enough
time debugging things before they release a new version, though. On the
other side I just started with Fedora 9 and so far I am not at all
impressed. Not only did the dmraid driver in the installer mistakenly use my
_only_ backup disk as an improper RAID-0 volume, but I've also run into
several rpm DB corruptions within the couple of weeks I've been using it!
Fedora 10 is supposed to be released Tuesday, but I don't plan on upgrading
after my experiences with 9. My case is probably small due to the number of
SATA controller chips out there, but the fact is it ruined my only backup
and I had no notion that /dev/mapper/nvidia-blahblah was a supposed on-chip
RAID array(which was disabled in CMOS)!
The problem with offering MV on the various distros is offering packaged
solutions. The point of any package-oriented Linux distro is to allow the
admin to install and remove software bundles without breaking the
dependencies and the system. Since there are multiple packaging systems and
different library versions on various distros it's kinda tough keeping up
with it all. I offered to package OpenQM for Debian stable and even uploaded
a .deb for one of the earlier GPL releases on GoogleGroups, but the problem
there is having real-time access to the latest source. If the software
version is constantly changing then there needs to be automatic updates to
follow in a timely manner.
Glen
for you.
Thing is, if you create a package for any distro, you SHOULD be able
to put a load of "depends on" stuff in your package, and it won't
install unless they are there (indeed, it should install them for
you).
So if you need a specific version of gcc, or glibc2, or whatever, just
put that in your package as a "depends on", and your install should
work across pretty much all recent versions of that distro. That's
actually where Debian scores over RedHat, because pretty much any .deb
will install on pretty much any Debian-based distro (including
Ubuntu), while rpm stuff can be very temperamental about distros (we
have SuSE to thank for that :-(
Cheers,
Wol
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