Re: Fatal error while installing RH 9 names glibc-common-
- From: General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:34:26 -0400
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 06:52:51 -0700, mailbox wrote:
JDS wrote:
> There is no good reason to install RHL9 on a fresh, clean partition
at
this time.
Okay...but why stay with Red Hat at all?
If you want the maximum compatibility with commercial software then RHEL
or a clone like CentOS or Whitebox is the way to go. Commercial software
vendors all certify there software on RHEL and generally on SUSE also, so
either RHEL or SUSE is a safe choice if you are going to be using any
commercial software. Fedora is the development platform for RH so it
generally maintains good compatibility with RHEL. However it's not
perfect, I run Cadence's NCsim, Xilinx tools, and Altera's Quartus tools.
NCsim works fine on FC4 and FC5 without having to do anything special.
Xilinx works fine on FC4 out of the box as long as you install the
compatibility libraries. I had to do something with FC5 (I don't remember
what, but it was simple) to make Xilinx's tools run on FC5. Altera's tools
run on FC4 but not on FC5. So FC is an OK choice for commercial software
but it's not going to be as headache free as RHEL or it's clones.
If all you use is open source software then your choice of a distro is
largely a matter of taste. All of the distros are essentially the same
under the covers. With open source software there aren't the same library
compatibility problems that you get with commercial software because the
programs are compiled for each distro.
I like Fedora Core because it's leading edge, but that's both a blessing
and a curse. Having the latest and greatest of everything gives you the
best new hardware compatibility and it gives you the newest features. The
curse side is that it can break things that worked on older distros. I
gave you the Quartus example. Another example is if you use virtual
machines. I have both Win4LinPro and Parallels Workstation which I use to
run Win2K on top of Linux (I recommend Parallels, it seems to work much
better than W4LPro but not as well as the now discontinued Win4Lin9x).
Neither of those works with a 2.6.17.x kernel which FC5 is now using. The
solution is to compile your own 2.6.16.x kernel which is what I've done. A
distro that leans towards the compatibility side wouldn't be using a
2.6.17.x kernel yet so it would have avoided the headache.
There are a lot of distros to choose from and they all have their
advocates. Most distros are free so you can try as many as you like. Also
because they are free their is no excuse for sticking with an old distro
like RH9 just because you happen to have a copy. All you have to do to get
a current distro is to download the ISOs and burn a DVD or a set of CDs,
total investment is somewhere between 20 cents and a dollar. The reason
that you don't want to use an old distro like RH9 is that it was created
in the era of PIIs and PIIIs and lacks the drivers for modern hardware.
Linux is different from Windows. The Windows installer assumes that it
doesn't know anything about your hardware. Windows does a basic
installation that requires only a minimal common subset of hardware to be
present. You then spend the next few hours downloading and installing
drivers and rebooting. Linux assumes that it has all of the drivers that
are necessary and installs them during the install. As long as your distro
and your hardware are contemporary this works great. However if the distro
is significantly older then the hardware it doesn't work nearly as well or
perhaps not at all. That's why you want to use a current distro on a new
machine.
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