Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread Elazar Leibovich
Due to company's policy, our development desktop stations must have RHEL 4.7 installed on them. However, RHEL's packages are extermely out of date (for instance, it still have python 2.3, etc.), and we wish to use many up too date development tools (I'm not aiming to the bleeding edge, however a

Re: Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread Omer Zak
1. Is RHEL 4.7 still being supported by RedHat, and are security patches still being made available? If yes, when is this support due to end? 2. Do you wish to use the up-to-date tools only for development, or also in software to be delivered to the customer and/or deployed in the company's

Re: Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread Evgeny Budilovsky
Why not compile all the latest software on some shared directory and then run it from there ... My company have policy not to give root access on development stations so I just compile all my development software in home directory and use it from there ... 2010/4/27 Elazar Leibovich

Re: Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
2010/4/27 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com: Due to company's policy, our development desktop stations must have RHEL 4.7 installed on them. However, RHEL's packages are extermely out of date (for instance, it still have python 2.3, etc.), and we wish to use many up too date development

Re: Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:33:33PM +0300, Evgeny Budilovsky wrote: Why not compile all the latest software on some shared directory and then run it from there ... My company have policy not to give root access on development stations so I just compile all my development software in home

Re: Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, I'm a Gentoo user and did it a lot of times, though using chroot. It is basically installing Gentoo into a directory. So you follow the Gentoo installation manual. You finish before the Grub installation section. Its a very straight forward procedure. Then you will have a very strong

Re: [Haifux] [HAIFUX Workshop] The Web Rant Workshop

2010-04-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 26 April 2010 09:46, Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com wrote: I'd appreciate to see a summary of the meeting and if there are any follow-up actions here or maybe one of the foss web sites. (I might have joined you on-line but it'll happen in my middle of the night of a work day). Hi

Re: Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread Elazar Leibovich
1. Yes it is http://press.redhat.com/2008/07/24/red-hat-enterprise-linux-47-released-today/ 2. Only for development. We have a specific environment for deployment, compiling and testing the end product (which is a good idea anyhow IMHO. You don't want the customers be affected by a specific build

Re: Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread Elazar Leibovich
It will waste a HUGE amount of time. Compiling basic software suite takes at least a single day, and it has a mental cost of managing the dependencies by hand. And you have to do that every time you update your software. It's even worse than windows non-package management system. On Tue, Apr 27,

Re: Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 02:12:41PM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: 1. Yes it is http://press.redhat.com/2008/07/24/red-hat-enterprise-linux-47-released-today/ 2. Only for development. We have a specific environment for deployment, compiling and testing the end product (which is a good idea

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2010-04-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
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Fwd: Ben Gurion - arrivals in Firefox

2010-04-27 Thread Gabor Szabo
This might interest some of you. (was in HTML originally but I textified with Gmail) Gabor -- Forwarded message -- From: Telma Shamir tel...@iaa.gov.il Date: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:59 AM Subject: Ben Gurion - arrivals in Firefox To: szab...@gmail.com Dear Mr. Szabo, Thank you

Re: Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread Elazar Leibovich
Thanks for your comments. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.ilwrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 02:12:41PM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: 1. Yes it is http://press.redhat.com/2008/07/24/red-hat-enterprise-linux-47-released-today/ 2. Only for development. We

Re: Writing to request Firefox / Linux support from Hebrew websites

2010-04-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 27 April 2010 02:18, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.com wrote: I'm in. Thanks, Stan, you are added to the list! I hope to start sending the mails next week. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: Modern development environment on dated RHEL

2010-04-27 Thread guy keren
Elazar Leibovich wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il mailto:tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: 4. I'm not sure. It's problematic since ClearCase 6 is only supported by IBM on RHEL 4.7, and we don't have new CC licenses. AHHH!

Re: Fwd: Ben Gurion - arrivals in Firefox

2010-04-27 Thread Stan Goodman
At 16:57:57 on Tuesday Tuesday 27 April 2010, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: This might interest some of you. (was in HTML originally but I textified with Gmail) Gabor I think the lady has tried to write an appropriate response, but has failed to do so. It isn't clear to me that she

Re: Fwd: Ben Gurion - arrivals in Firefox

2010-04-27 Thread Omer Zak
The ridiculous thing with the IAA Web site is that the landings page actively blocks non-IE browsers and prevents them from displaying the data. I am able to routinely check landing times by using View Source and searching for the flight number of interest. If you ask me, I'd look for a

Re: Fwd: Ben Gurion - arrivals in Firefox

2010-04-27 Thread Ori Idan
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Stan Goodman stan.good...@hashkedim.comwrote: If that is not done, we stand an excellent change of finding that the new website again required Internet Explorer, and being fobbed off again (as in the case of the Maccabi website), that the IE requirement is