Re: gEDA-user: gedagaf runs on RH8

[primorec <geda.mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:59:01 -0600
> From: Mark Rages <markrages@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> BTW. Igor, it is pretty painless to upgrade versions of Redhat with
> yum or apt. ( You shouldn't need to upgrade on account of gEDA, I'm
> just mentioning it because it *is* a lot easier for volunteer
> sysadmins like you and me. )

Yes, I know...   but, I am not willing to take a risk to break:
- the GPIB driver (National Instrument). Right now it works "just fine[TM]"
- kernel driver (written by us) which talks through parallel port to
I2C enabled devices
- and few other "home made" executables

I simply do not have a bandwidth or luxury to be a guinea pig. Right
now, my small LAN works, local authentication works, file server
works....  And I am happy :))

But, anyhow, thanks for the hint and open for suggestions

Igor
 
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:38:20 -0500 (EST), Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi 00
> >
> > I'm very happy to hear that gEDA is making its way into commercial
> > enterprises.
> >
> > BTW: The whole point behind the CD with the install wizard is to make
> > it easy to do commercial installs of gEDA.  The install wizard takes
> > care of the whole "configure && make && make install" dance for all of
> > the programs in the gEDA Suite.  The install wizard is a "frozen"
> > Python program; freezing Python programs is a very
> > platform-independent way to distribute executables.  Unfortunately, I
> > built it on a system which requires a more modern version of glibc.so
> > than is present on RH8.
> >
> > Another possibility -- which works for gEDA/gaf -- is to install using
> > the setup utility which comes bundled with the pacakge.  I believe you
> > can do "make xinstall", and it will do everything for you.
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 06:29:36 -0500 (EST), Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Yes, of course gEDA/gaf compiles & runs on RH8.
> > >
> > > great ...  this was for me ___the___most___important___aspect___.
> > > I am running a small network of 14 RH8 workstations in our LAB. We are
> > > using them to control GPIB instruments through scripting. Slowly, but
> > > surely, I am converting technicians and IC designers from MS WINDOWS
> > > (98,2K,XP) to Linux. I've spent last 4 years to come to the point to
> > > run small LAN with local authentication in a LAB. RH8 works "just
> > > fine[TM]".
> > > The major obstacle was the mentality of the users using the following
> > > argument : UNIX is way to complicated and non user friendly.
> > > We passed that point. They are happy running GPIB instruments in the
> > > lab from their cubicles using cygwin/X on their MS XP desktops.
> > > Now, I want to show to the users that they can start using Linux to
> > > design PCB as well and save money for licensing (EAGLE, PROTEL). And,
> > > of course, having schematic/PCB software on ALL 14  boxes without
> > > restrictions.
> > > I do not want to upgrade all boxes to RH9 and/or above. Yet.
> > > It is simply way too much work, which I am not paid for. I am paid for
> > > IC design. I've installed and configured a lot of packages over the
> > > past 3 years for RH8.
> > > In other words, __way__too__much__work (aka pain) to reconfigure LAN
> > > and boxes to something newer. I hope that gEDA/gaf + PCB will remain
> > > backward compatible in the future.
> > >
> > > >What won't run on RH8
> > > > is the GUI-based *Install Wizard* which lives on the CD ROM
> > > > distribution.
> > >
> > >   OK... I see..  thanks for the clarification
> > >
> > > That README pertains to the procedure of downloading
> > > > the .sio, burning it to a CD, and then running the Install Wizard to
> > > > *automatically* build and install gEDA.
> > >
> > >    OK  thanks for the info
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Igor
> > >
> > > P.S. : I am working for a semiconductor company in Silicon Valley with
> > > +9000 employees worldwide
> > >
> >
> >
> 
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