[Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-07 Thread Steve Thomas
Hi. we've been funded for new hardware for our Digital Library (yay!) and I'm now being asked what Operating system is required. The suggestion is Redhat EL 4. I'm sure that will be fine, but (being a Solaris person) I'd like reassurance, so . Can anyone please confirm that RHEL4 is OK for

[Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread James Tuttle
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Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-07 Thread Mark Diggory
Hello Steve, Most any Linux/Unix is acceptable (Even Apple OSX and Windows have been attempted successfully). The requirements are more Application centric: Postgresql 7.3 or greater (the latest 8.x is recommended) Java 1.4 or greater (again recommend the latest 1.5) Tomcat 4.x or greater (

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-07 Thread V. Alex Brennen
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 10:41 +1030, Steve Thomas wrote: > Hi. > we’ve been funded for new hardware for our Digital Library (yay!) and > I’m now being asked what Operating system is required. The suggestion > is Redhat EL 4. I’m sure that will be fine, but (being a Solaris > person) I’d like reassur

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-07 Thread Richard Mahoney
Hi Steve, On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:11, Steve Thomas wrote: > we’ve been funded for new hardware for our Digital Library (yay!) and > I’m now being asked what Operating system is required. The suggestion > is Redhat EL 4. I’m sure that will be fine, but (being a Solaris > person) I’d like reass

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-07 Thread Mark Diggory
Thanks guys, but just to note, we know that in both these cases neither RHEL or Fedoras default GNU GCJ Java implementation or distribution channels were used to maintain the Java "Stack". So in both cases the question of will it run on RHEL using the supported packages provided by Redhat i

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread James Rutherford
Hi Steve Steve Thomas wrote: > Can anyone please confirm that RHEL4 is OK for DSpace? It's fine, but as others have said, what's wrong with Solaris? As for Gentoo, I can't recommend it for use in production unless you a) have someone who already knows what they're doing with Gentoo, and b) you

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread Tim Donohue
Steve, Steve Thomas wrote: > > Can anyone please confirm that RHEL4 is OK for DSpace? Looks like you already have plenty of "yes" answers to this. :) I just wanted to pipe in that we're currently running our production installation of DSpace on RHEL3...and I don't believe RHEL4 would be too

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread Mark Diggory
Tim, Nobody has yet to actually answer the deeper question about RHEL... How about you guys? Are you running DSpace on Java/Tomcat provided by RHEL support channels/updates or are you running on a "rolled your own" installation of java/tomcat? Or alternatively, are you using JPackage? -M

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread Tim Donohue
Mark (and Steve), Mark Diggory wrote: > Tim, > > Nobody has yet to actually answer the deeper question about RHEL... How > about you guys? Are you running DSpace on Java/Tomcat provided by RHEL > support channels/updates or are you running on a "rolled your own" > installation of java/tomcat?

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread Mark Diggory
5:47 > To: Mark Diggory > Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net; Steve Thomas > Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace > > Mark (and Steve), > > Mark Diggory wrote: >> Tim, >> >> Nobody has yet to actually answer the deeper question about RHEL... >> Ho

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread Mark Diggory
So why use RHEL if your hand installing everything, it pretty much doesn't matter what Linux distro you use, why not use a free one? It seems paying for is supported version of the software stack, and not using that supported configuration pretty much negates that service. -Mark On Feb 8, 2

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread James Rutherford
Mark Diggory wrote: > So why use RHEL if your hand installing everything, it pretty much > doesn't matter what Linux distro you use, why not use a free one? It > seems paying for is supported version of the software stack, and not > using that supported configuration pretty much negates that

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread Tim Donohue
Mark, Mark Diggory wrote: > So why use RHEL if your hand installing everything, it pretty much > doesn't matter what Linux distro you use, why not use a free one? It > seems paying for is supported version of the software stack, and not > using that supported configuration pretty much negates

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread Mark Diggory
Sure, makes sense. -Mark On Feb 8, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Tim Donohue wrote: > Mark, > > Mark Diggory wrote: > > So why use RHEL if your hand installing everything, it pretty much > > doesn't matter what Linux distro you use, why not use a free one? It > > seems paying for is supported version of th

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread Brad Teale
All, On 02/08/2007 09:21 AM, Mark Diggory wrote: > Nobody has yet to actually answer the deeper question about RHEL... > How about you guys? Are you running DSpace on Java/Tomcat provided > by RHEL support channels/updates or are you running on a "rolled > your own" installation of java/tom

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread Tim Donohue
Brad Teale wrote: > All, > I've looked around RedHat EL and couldn't find a properly supported > Apache/Java/Tomat stack from RedHat. Our Institution wide IT department > recommends using RH Apache and Java/Tomcat installed by the user. I'm > still working with them for the mod_jk package. The

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread Brad Teale
I just find it odd that RedHat doesn't seem to provide all the Apache modules. I _did_ find a mod_jk rpm mentioned on rhn.redhat.com, but it seems to only be a source RPM. Where as, Debian and other distros (I've used) package mod_jk binariesjust seems funny that RedHat is afraid? of packagin

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace

2007-02-08 Thread Mark Diggory
Brad, https://www.redhat.com/solutions/rhappstack/ The challenge is that like someone mentioned earlier, they are only providing bea and ibm 1.4.x JVM's via that channel. I'm not convinced you'll see Suns JVM there until the whole thing rolls over to Java 1.5, sun didn't relicense 1.4.x the

Re: [Dspace-tech] OS for DSpace [Preferred Web Server]

2007-02-08 Thread Richard Mahoney
Mark et al., On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 18:07, Mark Diggory wrote: > One of main reasons I jumped on-board with Alex's push to use Gentoo > for [EMAIL PROTECTED] is that, in production, I'd much rather have a tried, > tested, well integrated "JAT" (Java Apache Tomcat) stack distributed > by the