Thank you, Ivan. Disregard the last note I sent as you have answered quite well!
Thank you again. Josh On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Ivan R. Judson wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:39:58AM -0500, Joshua M. Brown wrote: > > > Core 2, or Gentoo? i have people that put up a good deal of > > money and > > > purchased some very expensive equipment and it is stuck on AG1.x at > > > this time because i have no idea what OS will be supported. > > > > Support is a funny word with many different meanings. I > > don't know that anything in this project is really > > "supported" in the sense that "I paid for this and you must > > fix it". Whatever the community develops on/for, will be > > "supported" in the sense that it will likely run the best on > > that platform. Ivan was pretty clear that Fedora Core and > > Gentoo were two such platforms that the community were working on. > > Thanks Charles, I appreciate you're explaining this so clearly. The problems > we've been fighting are the result of the trade-offs of trying to be > non-volatile for the community, while making significant progress in > development of future versions of the software to include what the users > need/want. We have not performed as well as I think we could have, but we > are working on fixing that. > > In terms of support, Charles makes good points above, in fact, we are a > small development team working on building a research platform. We're > supporting a set of production services, but that's not something we > actually receive any support to do, our support is all focused on developing > the research platform. > > > If you want a more concrete level of support, maybe InSors or > > another company can provide that. > > > > > i really do need a solid answer on: > > > > > > 1) which distro? > > > 2) AG 2.3 - wait for that or move ahead with AG2.2 > > > > There will likely always be a newer one to look forward to... > > at least as long as this project continues. Newer generally > > means less stable. > > Ouch, and Ouch, and Yes :-). Here's where we are vectored at the moment, I > don't expect this to significantly change, but I can't comment yet on how > fast this will roll out either: > > Windows - ANL Support > OS X - ANL Support > Linux: > - Source Distribution - ANL Support > - Gentoo - ANL Support > - Fedora Core 2 - External Support > - Slackware - External Support > > We'd love to see debian, suse, mandrake, and others, but we just don't have > the time yet to do them. There are external developers working on other > distributions (debian at least), but I can't guarantee support for them will > be soon. > > We have built the software in a way that it should be able to be ported to a > new platform relatively easily (and we have examples that have shown this to > be true). So in the vein of all good open source projects, if it's not there > and you want it, jump in and do it! > > > It takes time to work out all the issues to provide a stable > > solution, by which time something newer is most likely out. > > Changing stuff is a destabalizing factor. It depends on how > > "bleeding edge" you want to be. > > This is true, and something everyone should know is that the 2.3 release > will have no significant functionality growth, there are some node services > that will be included, but they are being developed mostly by guests, or > externally. The core team is focused only on bug fixing, stability, and > improving tests and documentation. So hopefully this 2.3 release will shake > out the last spasms of the new software. > > --Ivan > >
