is it not possible automate compilation processes? --- On Fri, 11/25/11, Schooner <schoone...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
From: Schooner <schoone...@tiscali.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Next distribution after Ubuntu 10.04 LTS is, no longer supported? To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Friday, November 25, 2011, 12:49 AM Hi The real problem it seems to me, is one of philosophy rather than what is practically possible. The use of Ubuntu as a carrier vehicle has enabled a lot of people with minimal Linux knowledge to use EMC. As Kirk said, if a better technical solution were used at the expense of usability, that would impact upon the user base unless someone could be bothered to wrapper it for the uninitiated (which is the overwhelming majority). There should be no reason why the user could not have a choice of kernels from the distro at install time, one for SMP another for UP say. That immediately would answer a lot of problems. I personally do not like the later versions of Ubuntu and strip it out and use a light display manager and windowing system, because I hate the bloat and long initialisation time of Gnome and KDE. I have been doing a lot of rtai kernel building recently. Initially to test the effect of different configs on a quad core MB latency and more latterly to try to build a very light Debian based EMC distro, suitable for old machines. In the course of this I found that EMC runs well on a single processor build of both Lenny and Squeeze and will install on both new and old machines. I currently use a Debian Lenny build, not Ubuntu to run EMC. The longer term problem is that EMC has created a dependency upon a version number of Ubuntu to bring the latest version of EMC to the average user. It does not matter how many times users are told that you can run the latest 2.6 RIP on a Ubuntu 8.04 installation. Because it involves the unknown territory of compilation, they are not interested, all they want is another Live CD release that installs everything for them. So cater for them or it is just us geeks! regards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
