11 replies to this topic

[Rob Donovan]

Hi,

Does anyone know what version of Red Hat Linux that ProIV supports...

If you look on the download page, then it only shows a link for 7.1

But the supported platforms doc says that it suports 7.1 and 7.3 - 8.0.. but there is no download on ProIVs site for that.

Red Hat is now on version 9.

Anyone have any recomendations...

Thanks,

Rob D

[CSuarezdelReal]

Hi Bob!

Just as comments...

RedHat has changed a lot during the last couple of months. I understand that the last version of "Red Hat Linux" is 9, but then they split their development and now they provide "Fedora Core 1" (which is something like Red Hat Linux 10), supported by the open community and "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3", which is the "very stable" Linux version of Red Hat, in three different flavors, supported by themselves.

Regards,

[JamesS]

PROIV are committed to the Linux platform both for Intel and non-Intel processors (the latter being IBM zSeries). Over the last 6 months there has been some public fragmentation of the Linux vendor market place - the two groups with the largest market share being RedHat and the UnitedLinux consortium (SCO, TurboLinux, SuSE and Connectiva).

RedHat Linux has evolved at a great rate of knots; currently they are at version 9, with versions 7.x and 8.x of the operating system being end of lifed by them at the end of this year. Version 9 is being end of lifed on 30 april 2004. It is their view that businesses want to ensure they have supported stable operating system versions on which to run their business software; to this end they have created the WS/ES/AS stream of products as a separate product line to the "consumer" editions (RH 7, 8, 9)

In addition to this the third party products we (PROIV) support are not necessarily available or supported on the later versions of RedHat Linux. As an example Oracle do not support their version 9 database on anything other than RH 7.1 and the AS/ES platforms; whilst it is possible to install Oracle on RH9 and make it work we are unable to support PROIV in this combination as Oracle dont support their product. CISAM is another product that is only available on certain GLibC versions making it non compatible with RH 9.

It is our intention to match RedHat (and the database vendors) in their strategy for supporting longer lifed operating system versions. To this end we will be making available (in the near future) PROIV certified on the RedHat Linux 2.1 ES/AS platform. Once we have compatibility with CISAM and Oracle on version 3 of AS/ES we also plan to release a version for that platform.

We currently do not have any plans to certify PROIV with the RedHat Fedora project.

The other main Linux platforms are covered by the UnitedLinux umbrella, here it is our intention to certify against UnitedLinux 1.0 - to this end we will support the platforms they do. This is a similar strategy to Oracle who have validated against UnitedLinux 1.0. This certification should be available early next year.

As most of the PROIV customer base is aware we are planning to seed the
Linux market place with PROIV Single Developer, this will target RedHat Linux 9 and the UnitedLinux platforms. In the case of RH9 we are unable to offer support for CISAM due to library compliance but we will be enabling the Oracle interface if users happen to have got the database installed successfully. Both platforms will support PostgreSQL.

Information on PROIV's current and planned supported platforms can be found here.

James Sanderson
PROIV Development Manager

[Rob Donovan]

Hi James,

Thanks for the detailed explanation

That explains it well...

Rob D.

[Dan Shannon]

James -

The link to 'PRO-IV single developer' doesn't work - can you fix or re-post?

Thanks

Dan Shannon

[Cleve Haynes]

Dan - the link works fine for me...

Cleve

[JamesS]

Dan,

Works for me - I just tried it from home - drop me a mail if you still cant get at it.

james

[Dan Shannon]

I get

A runtime error has occured executing the requested page
Request URI /concerto/home/news/index.xsp
Error Message 1070529973953-5: /fragments/webTrack.js, Line 78 - Method split not found.
Xoology Concerto Universal 3.6.514 PR

Every time...

Could it be my browser? Mozilla 1.5, but hiding behind a firewall which masks its identity (stealth browsing)

Cheers

Dan

[JamesS]

Thanks Dan - We'll check it out.

James

[Dan Shannon]

It's working now, thanks James

Sounds like a good idea to me, I seem to remember clamouring for this for years...

[JamesS]

Sorted - there was a fault in processing the value of USER_AGENT http header token.

James

PS. Mozilla

[Rob Fantini]

Hello Rob.

I've used pro4 Version : 4.6000 Revision : 2.1.3 on many linux kernels thru the latest RedHat & Mandrake.
Its been along time since I installed pro4 on a linux system. I usually just copy over my pro4 development and data files and it works. I did that last month. The last time i installed pro4 from scratch was 12/1999.

Anyway I'd install Mandrake 9.2 as its easier to install missing rpms you may need.

If you need to install pro4, do atleast this when installing linux;
-install kernel-source. the install process will then install most or all of the rpms to compile pro4.

-if you use redhat, check out apt-get for installing missing rpms.

-for mandrake, a great tool called 'urpmi' is part of their system.
for instance if you need 'pdksh' just type in 'urpmi pdksh' .
if you know a file name needed but not which rpm to install :
'urpmf filename' returns the rpm to install.

If you need any help on this e-mail direct. then we can put some kind of how-to on this in a file...