[linrad] Re: Fedora 3

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- "Dr. David Kirkby" <drkirkby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> leif@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > After having used Fedora 3 for a while I have now returned
> > to RedHat 9.
> > 
> > It seems to me that Fedora is moving towards a Microsoft
> > kind of system. "do not touch any system files - you may
> > get into trouble with automatic security updates".
> 
> I can't help but feel Redhat has already moved to a Microsoft
> bussiness 
> mentality, which is why I would refuse to run Redhat out of principle
> 
> (that said, I do run Windoze when I have to).
> 
> I'm not running the latest version of Debian here, have not run
> Linrad 
> and much prefer my Solaris box to the Debian box. But that is only
> since 
> I know Solaris a lot better.
> 
> At least Debian really is free, and you don't feel you are going to
> get 
> any nasty surprises. Does Debian not run Linrad OK??
> 
> BTW, I guess given the problems with the different distros of Linux, 
> this might be a silly question, but is there much in Linrad that
> means it must run on Linux?

I read the comments about about fedora.  Seemed to me that swapping
distributions is a very round about way to change a crontab entry.
Why not simply stop the anoying background task?

Linrad use "svgalib" for graphic.  This is a linus-only graphic
library that writes directly to the graphics hardware.  The use
of savgalib is likely the biggest reason linrad is not in more
common use.  svgalib is mostly obsolite and only supports certain
hardware cards.

Yes, Solaris, Mac OSX and BSD all have advantages over Linux and
well written software should not care which OS it is running under.
People have talked about porting linrad but it would really be a
re-implementation
> 
> Could a UNIX operating system (i.e. Solaris, AIX, Tru64, IRIX, HP-UX,
> 
> Mac OSX etc etc) be used without a major rewrite? Most modern Sun 
> UltraSPARC boxes have a half-way decent soundcard that is accessable 
> from Solaris. And of course Solaris now runs on x86 hardware too, so
> the 
> better sound cards work too.
> 
> And just in case you did not know, Solaris is now free for both 
> commercial and non commerical use on both SPARC and x86 hardware, for
> 
> any number of CPUs. (Solaris 8 had a limit of 8 CPUs for the free 
> version, but 10 is free under all circumstances).
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Redhat
> -- 
> Dr. David Kirkby PhD CEng MIEE,
> Senior Research Fellow,
> Department of Medical Physics,
> Mallet Place Engineering Building,
> Gower St,
> University College London,
> London WC1E 6BT.
> 
> 
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