RE: SE & 4GL Migration
> If you really want a Linux education, head over to > www.linuxfromscratch.org and get the > book on building your own linux system from scratch, it will > give you more experience > than any distro could ever give you, and you can then make > better choices on Linux > distributions after going through the best tutorial on Linux > systems ever done. > > -DE- Thanks, Double Echo. I'm an under-the-hood kind of guy and this looks like it would be perfect for me. Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org > [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Double Echo > Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:10 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: SE & 4GL Migration > > Julien Mills wrote: > > On 2006-05-09, Double Echo <doubleecho@your.com> wrote: > >> lhelton@gmail.com wrote: > >>> Now don't laugh....we are still running SE 5.0 & 4GL 4.10 > >>> on SCO Unix 3.2v4.2 > >>> > >>> All my apps are still humming, but lord please don't let > my hardware > >>> fail! I'm too embarrassed to tell you what the hardware > is.....but hey, > >>> it works! I'm an old-time Informix developer (with a > pretty face), that > >>> feels trapped in the old days. > >>> > >>> Planning to migrate away from SCO and upgrade to SE 7.25 > & 4GL/SQL 7.32 > >>> on a Linux platform. Any recommendations for Linux flavor? > >> SuSE 10. But also consider AMD Opteron not Intel Xeon. > You'll get more > >> for the money. Should also be thinking x86_64 if you're > in the x86 space. > >> If you're into other kinds of hardware, IBM has a lot > going on with Power5 > >> you should check out too. > > > > Why are you guys all gung ho on SuSE ??? > > > > > > 1. Historically a better interface with YAST for managing > major software components > compared with others. > 2. A lot of leading kernel efforts are being done by SuSE > people, head over to > www.kernel.org and look at who's doing what. > 3. Favors RPM installations, although you aren't forced to > use RPM exclusively. > 4. Historically easier to install and set up than most of > the others, however, a > lot of the other distros have improved dramatically. I > heard Gentoo either has > a GUI installer or one is coming real soon now. > 5. Major vendor support for drivers with more of an > international perspective. > 6. Excellent platform for businesses with limited Linux > experience. The sys admin is > a lot easier for inexperienced sys admins than other distros. > 7. Most of the features only now showing up in other > distros SuSE has had for quite > some time. > > Don't get me wrong, Gentoo is fantastic, RedHat is ok, but > lacks a YAST, and Knoppix is > over the top at least on boot-cd-magic and bleeding edge > boots-on-anything technology. > RedHat is improving on system admin tools but still requires > a lot of behind the scenes > command-line tinkering. YaST is open source too, RH should > consider using it. > > If you really want a Linux education, head over to > www.linuxfromscratch.org and get the > book on building your own linux system from scratch, it will > give you more experience > than any distro could ever give you, and you can then make > better choices on Linux > distributions after going through the best tutorial on Linux > systems ever done. > > -DE- > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > >