On 22 August 2010 21:57, Jens Langner <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 22.08.10 22:39, schrieb Sean Clarke: > > > On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 22:33 +0200, Jens Langner wrote: > > > >> Well, as I am the author of the Ubuntu 9.04/10.04 howto guide on > >> wiki.sun-rays.org, I can at least report that we have upgraded and > >> partly reinstalled all our 9.04 servers with 10.04 and we haven't had > >> any serious issues with our SRSS installations so far. So my howto seems > >> to be still valid and compatible with 10.04. I just haven't had the time > >> to update the howto to show that it is also compatible with 10.04. > > > > Didn't doubt your guide for a minute... just my ability to follow it ;o) > > > > Can't think what I have done wrong though.... > > I understand that it could really be hard to follow the guide step by > step without forgetting something. In addition, there is definitely more > than one starting point for the installation as systems could be > slightly different in case you installed the desktop variant of ubuntu > or the server variant or if you did an upgrade or a clean install. > > That's the reason why I always thought about that it would be great to > generate a single .deb package with embedded scripts which might do the > job of installing and upgrading SRSS on your ubuntu machine. However, > such a script/package isn't an easy job in addition to fighting with > possible licensing issues when distributing these install packages. In > addition, I never understood why Sun/Oracle doesn't directly support > more different flavours of Linux distributions (especially 64bit > installations).
I start from Ubuntu desktop 64bit install, can't see why that would effect it though, but could that be at least part of my issue? > All these supported SuSE and RedHat Enterprise Linux > systems are far too outdated today. > Couldn't agree more - like it or not, Ubuntu is hugely popular - userbase wide I beleive they are No 1 by a large margin... enterprise wide, not so - but I beleive that will trickle through as more people embrace Ubuntu they will naturally push it into the enterprise space. -- Regards Sean Clarke --------------------------------------------- SEC Consulting Limited Phone: +44 (0)23 8040 5599 Website: http://www.sec-consulting.co.uk Email: [email protected] SEC Consulting is a Sun Partner Advantage Member: Sun, keeping 10 moves ahead. http://www.sec-consulting.co.uk/Sun/index.html
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