[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What is the best OS for installing Evergreen-ILS?

2011-11-29 Thread Wolf Halton
I know the standard wisdom is Whichever OP your organization has standardized on is the best OS for installing Evergreen-ILS however I am in a position to test and try stuff with minimal red tape (barring structural alteration). I understand Evergreen has been tested on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What is the best OS for installing Evergreen-ILS?

2011-11-29 Thread Jason Stephenson
Wolf, Debian is a good choice as are Ubuntu and Fedora. These are three most popular distros among the developer community, so you'll get the most help in IRC with these. There are also make targets for installing prerequisites on these distros, so the installation will be easier with

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What is the best OS for installing Evergreen-ILS?

2011-11-29 Thread Ben Shum
I'm still a relatively new to Linux server administration, but I'll throw in my two cents. When we first setup Evergreen 1.4, we used Debian Lenny, as that was the recommendation at the time. Shortly thereafter, Evergreen 1.6 came out, and we continued using Debian Lenny since we had become

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What is the best OS for installing Evergreen-ILS?

2011-11-29 Thread Sharp, Chris
Hi Wolf, I understand Evergreen has been tested on Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and RHEL. From your experience what are the hurdles or the differences in using one over another. Presume equal skill in all of these Distros. Are there other distros that work easier, more dependably? Have you

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What is the best OS for installing Evergreen-ILS?

2011-11-29 Thread Wolf Halton
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Jason Stephenson jstephen...@mvlc.orgwrote: Wolf, Debian is a good choice as are Ubuntu and Fedora. These are three most popular distros among the developer community, so you'll get the most help in IRC with these. There are also make targets for installing

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What is the best OS for installing Evergreen-ILS?

2011-11-29 Thread Jason Stephenson
Quoting Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com: Jason, Standing on the shoulders of those who made the install targets distributed with EG2.1, I hacked together my own additions to target Ubuntu 11.10. It seemed to work alright except for shoe-horning in Postgresql-9.1. I am sure it is more

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What is the best OS for installing Evergreen-ILS?

2011-11-29 Thread Wolf Halton
I have been learning to use git for local development. My own little projects do not have but 1 contributor but it helps me keep track of changes. http://sourcefreedom.com On Nov 29, 2011 2:37 PM, Jason Stephenson jstephen...@mvlc.org wrote: Quoting Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com: Jason,