Hi Tom, On Wednesday 10 February 2010 11:17:26 am Tom Kuiper wrote: > I guess I forgot to stress the phrase "a lot". Not long ago I decided > to change from using symbolic links out of the standard locations > (/usr/local/lib. /usr/local/bin. etc.) to installing the files directly > into those locations. I "only" had to change the makefiles and run > "make install". With all the inevitable gotchas, it took quite a > while. > > I don't know what problems Lincoln ran into. That was quite a while > ago and I declined to get involved. > > The last time I heard anything from TAMS about 64-bit support, they > suggested reverting to 32-bit mode or getting a dedicated 32-bit > instrument controller. Lately, they haven't responded to e-mails. > > I'm just saying, think about it before you decide to switch over.
That part is definitely true -- if only from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" > Out of curiosity, if NRAO has selected RH, why do you still use Debian? > There must be some case for running both distributions side-by-side, > though I'd prefer not to. Basically because I'm a geek. :-) I sysadmin all my machines (including my pulsar search cluster) just because I enjoy doing it. And I've run Debian (or now Ubuntu, a Debian derivative) for about 15 years straight. I really like its package management system and the fact that there are _huge_ numbers of packages supported by default. Plus I obviously know it very well by now (and I don't know RHEL well at all). Cheers, Scott -- Scott M. Ransom Address: NRAO Phone: (434) 296-0320 520 Edgemont Rd. email: [email protected] Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA GPG Fingerprint: 06A9 9553 78BE 16DB 407B FFCA 9BFA B6FF FFD3 2989
