[Platforms #EWA-768838]: Unidata supported platforms

["Unidata Platforms Support" <support-platforms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Samuel,

re:
> Just to let you know, if you guys ever decide to list Red Hat Enterprise GNU/Linux
> as one of your supported platforms, I would suggest telling users to get AT LEAST
> the "RHEL Desktop with Workstation" support option, and preferably "Server".  If
> you only get "RHEL Desktop", the command "yum install g++" becomes problematic, due
> to Red Hat's package subscription channels.

One the things required for building Unidata applications is a full development environment.
We have not gone to the lengths to try to define exactly what this means because it
varies from operating system to operating system (i.e., some come with needed routines
automatically installed, and some do not).

> Here at CUP we have been able to install McIDAS on RHEL 5(Fedora Core 6) machines, and
> it seems to work pretty well.

Very good.

> It also seems to work on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), which is GNUer.

I have built McIDAS-X v2007x on:

Fedora Core 5/6/7/8
OpenSuse 10.1,2
Ubuntu 7.10
FreeBSD 6.3
RedHat Enterprise 3,4
Sun Solaris 10 (SPARC and x86)
AIX 5.1
etc.

Some of these were by way of a virtual machine running in VMware Player under Windows XP
on my IBM T30 (old and slow) laptop :-).

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: EWA-768838
Department: Support Platforms
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed