[Bioclusters] Operating system choice.

[Tim Cutts]

On 13-Nov-03, Farul Mohd. Ghazali wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, David Robillard wrote:
> 
> > As a unix systems admin, I'm not a big fan of Red Hat linux products
> > (or anything RPM based for that matter), because of dependency
> > problems inherent to RPM. I would prefer to go with Debian GNU/Linux
> > or with FreeBSD. Unfortunately, my Upper Management team thinks Linux
> > and Red Hat are identical.
> >
> > I thus face two barriers:
> >
> > a) The OS needs to be compatible with Platform LSF and Veritas NetBackup client.
> 
> Several people have already mentioned about LSF. My limited experience
> with Veritas Netbackup 4.5 is that it does not like glibc-2.3 which is the
> standard on Redhat 8/9. We mucked around a bit with multiple glibcs and
> ld.so.conf but it would not even install properly. Worked fine on Redhat
> 7.3 (glibc-2.2).
> 
> I believe Debian Woody is still using glibc-2.2 so you may be ok if you're
> going that route.

Nope.  Debian Woody is 2.3 too.

Tim

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Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK