Well, it is sort of the OS. The OS, as the likes of Red Hat, are a collection of utilities, of which cut is one.
To deal with the changing versions of these utilities, many enterprise versions of Linux will freeze the utilities versions in a release called LTS - Long Term Support. Overtime, 1-2 years, many of these utilities; mySQL, Apache, PHP, and Python, in particular get stuck on old versions. This is why many enterprise applications, of which U2 is one, will specify which brand and release of the OS it will successfully install and run on. If this was not so, then supporting of the ever moving versions of Linux would be a nightmare. This is one of the main disadvantages of Linux and is how Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Suse market their enterprise versions of Linux - a Long Term Supported frozen version of utilities (security fixes are one of the few changes that are backported) that they will support. Fedora, in particular, ubuntu, and others are rather bleeding edge with the versions of utilities which they provide and it is always a continuous chore of dealing with the install and running of applications which break due to the changes. I use Ubuntu for the pretty desktops and boring plain CentOS for servers for these reasons. Cheers, djm George Gallen-2 wrote: > > apprantly, it's not the OS, it's the version of cut. > > > > ----- Learn and Do Excel and Share http://mvdbs.com http://mvdbs.com -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/UV-on-Linux-question...-tp30953691p30959790.html Sent from the U2 - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
