Which flavor of linux is right for you all depends on your values and comfort level with each distro. The biggest differences between distros seems to be the package managers. They all use the same kernel, albeit different revisions.
If you want to conform as closely as possible to the list of BMC supported distros, use CentOS, which is basically a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I am really starting to like debian, just because of their values and package manager. I'm not a big fan of the yum/rpm package managers, just because you get into funny situations in how they manage package dependencies. I've run ARS on the following: - stock linux kernel with CentOS - stock linux kernel with Debian - stock linux kernel with fedora - OpenVZ kernel with CentOS - OpenVZ kernel with Debian OpenVZ is a (linux to linux only) virtualization method that implements virtualization at the kernel level. I really like it because you only have 1 kernel running on the box, which is shared between all vm's. The desity of vm's you can get onto 1 box is much higher for this reason. It's great for development environments. Axton Grams On 5/18/07, Jason Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
** John, What flavor of Linux. I am running Win2k in my VM but have been thinking about building a Linux VM to replace it (my servers are all Windows and this will give me my *nix fix). I just haven't decided on which flavor yet. George, I do mostly development in mine and not demos but I have happy with the performance. Dell Latitude D620, XP Pro, 2.16 GHz Dual Core, 2 gig of ram (the VM gets 1 gig of ram) ARS 7.0.01 p001 ITSM 6 MS SQL 2000 SP4 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Sundberg Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 4:59 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Building a Demonstration Laptop ** I think it depends what you are demoing. I avg about 2-3 demos/day of Kinetic Request. My environment: Dell Laptop (1 year old) - 1GB memory - Windows XP (Remedy UT 7.0, IE 6) + VMWare Player My Remedy: VM Linux Oracle 10 Unicode ARS 7 Mid-Tier Kinetic Request web engine Configured to use 534MB I also have a 200MB swapfile configured on linux -- it uses about 100MB - but then stays at that. (I do not have any ITSM apps installed on my demo environment -- our apps run against the bare ARS -- and therefore I do not need the ITSM on my demo box) Runs great. Licensing: Linux - free Oracle 10i APEX - free (has restrictions -- but I easily fall under them) ARS -- I have < 2000 records or so in forms -- so I have been using a demo license I start up the VM - then minimize it -- then I use the host OS and connect to the VM with the WUT/IE. (I have always found this technique better than having the WUT installed in the VM - then running the VM full screen -- that technique always seemed slower to me. -- also if I chose that -- then I could not use Linux as the VM to host the Remedy server etc... I think I can use Linux in 534MB with Oracle, AR7, etc... because the Linux config is lightweight. Care for a demo of Kinetic Request? if so - email me. Oh - and my other demo machine - is a Macbook Pro - 2GB with VMWare Fusion. I sometimes demo Kinetic Request being used from Macintosh Safari. (Our apps do not use Mid-Tier -- so we work with a wider range of browsers) So - same VM config as above -- however I do not use WUT at all -- just our apps in the demo. Really - if you are interested - I would love to demo to ARSListers. :) -John On 5/17/07, George Treisbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Subject: Building a Demonstration Laptop Any recommendations from the list on what makes up a good demonstration Laptop ?? Memory ?? Database ?? Remedy licensing ?? Thanks in advance. George T. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are" -- John David Sundberg 235 East 6th Street, Suite 400B St. Paul, MN 55101 (651) 556-0930-work (651) 247-6766-cell (651) 695-8577-fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___ __20060125_______________________This posting was submitted with HTML in it___
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