On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Tom Kuiper <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/17/2012 12:57 PM, Dan Werthimer wrote: >> >> we've experience twisted and frustrating behavior with non-xilinx >> supported >> operating systems. in one case, our design compiled without any error >> or warning messages, but the FFT didn't produce the correct results. >> we eventually figured out that small FFT's worked, but large FFT's didn't >> work. >> we had no idea why. > > That is scary! Fortunately, the PSD Group here has supported systems if I > need to borrow one. > >> xilinx wouldn't answer our questions because they said we were using a >> non-supported operating system. > > I have the same problem with TAMS and their GPIB software. For years they > wouldn't even support 64-bits. I ended up with a solution that didn't > depend on their software. > >> when we switched to a xilinx supported operating system, everything >> worked. >> we still don't know why this problem was related to the operating system >> we were using. > > Sobering. Still, it would be good if people would share their non-RH > successes here. I'm cautiously migrating from Debian to Ubuntu, b.t.w. I > think their support is better, very good, actually.
At MIT, we mostly use Fedora. It seems to work, horror stories notwithstanding. Just don't ask for support. There are also tools like schroot that can help with running old distros inside a modern distro. --Andy
