Hello Steve,
Most any Linux/Unix is acceptable (Even Apple OSX and Windows have
been attempted successfully). The requirements are more Application
centric:
Postgresql 7.3 or greater (the latest 8.x is recommended)
Java 1.4 or greater (again recommend the latest 1.5)
Tomcat 4.x or greater (again, best to be the latest)
Ant 1.6 or greater
Your probably looking for the appropriate "Vendor Stack" to maintain
and keep up to date for these dependencies. What are your SysAdmins
preferences? We use Gentoo Linux and its Debian style "emerge"
update mechanism to handle these dependencies and it hasn't bitten us
yet. It is analogous to Redhat's RHN (Redhat Network) which is Yum
and RPM based.
The caveats you might want to be aware of and research with Redhat
(and I'm not sure this is still an issue) is that the default JVM on
readhat is based on GNU's gcj native compiler and you might encounter
inconsistencies in some of the libraries that DSpace provides and the
GCJ native counterparts. Which would defeat the purpose of using a
major distro like Redhat EL4 because you couldn't use their default
installation of Java/Tomcat/Ant to deploy DSpace on. I'm unsure and
someone should "ping" me across the head if I am incorrect in this
old assumption as I haven't attempted a test on Redhat EL since last
spring.
-Mark
On Feb 7, 2007, at 7:11 PM, Steve Thomas wrote:
Hi.
we’ve been funded for new hardware for our Digital Library (yay!)
and I’m now being asked what Operating system is required. The
suggestion is Redhat EL 4. I’m sure that will be fine, but (being a
Solaris person) I’d like reassurance, so …
Can anyone please confirm that RHEL4 is OK for DSpace?
Cheers,
Stephen Thomas,
Senior Systems Analyst,
University of Adelaide Library
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