At Engineering we've had good luck so far running engineering applications
on Linux distributions other than the officially supported platforms,
although some take some coaxing to install in the first place. One
trick would be to install on the supported platform and just copy the
needed files over to the production server. And as far as support goes,
my personal feeling is that if you needed commercial support from the
app vendor, you can always do an install on their preferred platform,
solve the same problem, and apply the fix to your desired platform that
is actually running the software in question. If you really need it in
production to have it fixed, break down and put a new server in
production for a week or two that runs redhat or whatever.
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 03:30:13PM -0500, Jeffrey Utter wrote:
imho
While you may be able to get a piece of software to work with other
flavors of Linux than the ones they support, you will be effectively
giving up the support that company has to offer you. Companies do this
for the very reason of not staffing people to support every flavor out
there. Most companies worth a darn will at least try and help you, but
they are not obligated to.
Also I have had mixed results when trying to run software on Fedora, or
CentOS that says it is supported on RedHat.
Good Luck!
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Jeff Utter
Eric Weston wrote:
>If Red Hat supports it, most likely Fedora does as well, and Fedora is
>free.
>
>
> Eric
>
>>From: John Resotko <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: John Resotko <[log in to unmask]>
>>Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:56:02 -0500
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: [MSUNAG] Linux application server question
>>
>>A quick question for anyone out there running Linux servers to manage
>>media files: is anyone using Flash Media Server from Macromedia/Adobe on
>>a Linux server? Back when Macromedia ran the show, I believe they
>>supported several Linux flavors officially. Since the Adobe buyout,
>>they only officially support the product on RedHat Linux, and I
>>personally would rather not pay for RedHat Enterprise server just to
>>support this applcation when I have perfectly good SUSE Linux servers up
>>and running now.
>>
>>If anyone out there has Flash Media server running on a Linux other
>>than Red Hat, I would love to hear from you about any issues you've had
>>getting it installed and running. Thanks for any info or web links you
>>are willing to share.
>>
>>
>>
>>John A. Resotko
>>Head of Systems Administration
>>Michigan State University College of Law
>>208 Law College Building
>>East Lansing, MI 48824-1300
>>email: [log in to unmask]
>>Phone: 517-432-6836
>>Fax: 517-432-6861
>>
>>Current Chairperson of the
>>MSU Network Communications Committee
>>
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Jeff Utter
Network Security
Michigan State University
Academic Computing and Network Services
301 Computer Center
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