Re: Linux (was Informix running on Linux )

On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 15:03:29 -0400, Todd Graham Lewis <tlewis@mindspring.com> wrote: >I am not going to start an OS flamewar. 8^) > >> On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Tom Schaefer wrote: >> Redhat is nice, but the 'rpm' technology they use is proprietary. > >Every single part of redhat, including their packaging software, is >covered by the Gnu Public License, and comes with complete source. I'm not sure if Volkerding's stuff (Slackware) is GNUware or not, but his 'tag file' system is open enough that anyone can modify how it works as well... > >RedHat would be the obvious choice. Not necessarily. If it works for you, then that's fine. >It has a company standing behind it >which makes its money developing the operating system, cooperating with >other companies, etc. So does Slackware, and Caldera and WGS and Deb & Ian's version ... >If Informix becomes seriously interested in doing a >Linux port, then I highly reccommend that they contact RedHat, who has >done this sort of thing before. An open port with a base specification would probably serve the developer community much better. Such a spec would allow Informix to be installed on ANY of the current distributions. Wouldn't that keep the market more open? Wouldn't an "open Linux spec" allow systems builders to tailor a particular system to run the engine the best possible way? Enable a builder the ability to trim the fat and run a leaner faster system if they can tune it to spec, instead of forcing everyone to swallow an install based upon a single vendor solution. We already have that in Solaris, HP/UX, et al. > >(Disclaimer: I am a Debian user.) >Todd Graham Lewis Linux! Core Engineering >MindSpring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.com (800) 719 4664, x2804 > But I thought Red Hat was the 'obvious choice' for the discriminating Linux head... ;) -tks- (a Slacker) ;)