Re: Informix running on Linux

Richard Stanford said >One main problem here -- the inherent differences between Linux installations. What "inherent" differences? The only issue likely to bother an application vendor is whether to package their app using Debian's dpkg, Red Hat's rpm or just tar and shell script. Tar and script is probably fine for most apps. Both dpkg and rpm are freely available so no one is locked out. Also dpkg can handle rpms. >IMO, the biggest pain would not be porting Online to Linux, but supporting >it once its there. Since Linux is in flux so much of the time, this would >be very difficult indeed. Why? Release against production kernels just like you do for SCO. Sure, you sometimes get patches against the production kernel but then you also get patches against SCO releases. The development kernel? Well, I don't see Informix rushing out releases against SCO's Gemini for the sake of their beta sites :-). Mike -- .----------------------------------------------------------------------. | Mike Jagdis | Internet: mailto:mike@roan.co.uk | | Roan Technology Ltd. | | | 54A Peach Street, Wokingham | Telephone: +44 118 989 0403 |