I would rather qualify Ubuntu as hell when deploying large setups of machines that have to be kept in working order for a long while.
We should give top notch support for RHEL if we want to be relevant in spaces like Hadoop for example as the reference platform is RHEL/CentOS. Phil On Oct 6, 2017 16:20, "Andrew Glynn" <aglyn...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's a reason it's referred to by numerous developers as R-HELL. > > Andrew Glynn > > -----Original Message----- > > *Date*: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 21:46:20 +0800 > *Subject*: Re: [Pharo-users] Deploying on Linux with LibC version < 2.15 > *To*: bruce.on...@pckswarms.ch, Any question about pharo is welcome < > pharo-users@lists.pharo.org > <any%20question%20about%20pharo%20is%20welcome%20%3cpharo-us...@lists.pharo.org%3e> > > > Reply-to: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org > > > *From*: Holger Freyther <hol...@freyther.de > <holger%20freyther%20%3chol...@freyther.de%3e>> > > > On 5. Oct 2017, at 18:08, Bruce O'Neel <bruce.on...@pckswarms.ch> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Hi! > > > > > Well, our redhat 6.9 systems have 2.12, so, that qualifies. > > And yes, we still have RedHat 6, and 6.9 was released only 6 months ago! It > will finish extended support in a mind-blowing 7 more years in 2024. > > Redhat 5, still supported for another 3 years till 2020 has glibc 2.5. > > > > > for a brief moment you really scared me. I thought you referred to RedHat > Linux 6 which was released in 1999 but you are referring to Red Hat > Enterprise Linux (RHEL). > > As it turns out we have "latest" (as soon as a commit is made to > pharo-vm.git) and hand curated "stable" (hand created source tarballs, > rebuilt from a git commit of opensmalltalk-vm) for RHEL6 and CentOS 6. > > CentOS 6.x: > > # Add the repo > $ yum-config-manager --add-repo > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/pharo:/latest/CentOS_6/devel:languages:pharo:latest.repo > > OR (for stable): > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/pharo:/latest/CentOS_6/devel:languages:pharo:stable.repo > > # Install 32bit packages (with X11 dependency for *-ui or not) > > $ yum install pharo6-32-ui.i686 or pharo6-32.i386 > > # Install 64bit packages > > $ yum install pharo6-64-ui.x86_64 pharo6-64.x86_64 > > > > > > >
