Now don't laugh....we are still running SE 5.0 & 4GL 4.10
on SCO Unix 3.2v4.2

All my apps are still humming, but lord please don't let my hardware
fail! I'm too embarrassed to tell you what the hardware is.....but hey,
it works! I'm an old-time Informix developer (with a pretty face), that
feels trapped in the old days.

Planning to migrate away from SCO and upgrade to SE 7.25 & 4GL/SQL 7.32
on a Linux platform. Any recommendations for Linux flavor?

Lori

lhelton@gmail.com said:
> Now don't laugh....we are still running SE 5.0 & 4GL 4.10
> on SCO Unix 3.2v4.2
>
> All my apps are still humming, but lord please don't let my hardware
> fail! I'm too embarrassed to tell you what the hardware is.....but hey,
> it works! I'm an old-time Informix developer (with a pretty face), that
> feels trapped in the old days.
>
> Planning to migrate away from SCO and upgrade to SE 7.25 & 4GL/SQL 7.32
> on a Linux platform. Any recommendations for Linux flavor?

SuSE.

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lhelton@gmail.com wrote:

> Planning to migrate away from SCO and upgrade to SE 7.25 & 4GL/SQL 7.32
> on a Linux platform. Any recommendations for Linux flavor?

I went back to SCO 3.2v4.2 the other day to administer some C-ISAM stuff
and it took me a good few minutes to remember some of the commands,
"sysadmsh" for example ;-) It's amazing how things have moved on isn't it?

IBM have a page about this:

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data...linux/ids.html

Latest versions require RHEL or SLES which are enterprise-grade
versions. SuSE 10 does work well though.

Ben.

lhelton@gmail.com wrote:
> Now don't laugh....we are still running SE 5.0 & 4GL 4.10
> on SCO Unix 3.2v4.2
>
> All my apps are still humming, but lord please don't let my hardware
> fail! I'm too embarrassed to tell you what the hardware is.....but hey,
> it works! I'm an old-time Informix developer (with a pretty face), that
> feels trapped in the old days.
>
> Planning to migrate away from SCO and upgrade to SE 7.25 & 4GL/SQL 7.32
> on a Linux platform. Any recommendations for Linux flavor?
>
> Lori
>

SuSE 10. But also consider AMD Opteron not Intel Xeon. You'll get more
for the money. Should also be thinking x86_64 if you're in the x86 space.
If you're into other kinds of hardware, IBM has a lot going on with Power5
you should check out too.

There are some good blade server configurations available as well from HP
and IBM. But take a closer look at AMD if you're in the x86 space, it is
much faster than Intel, cheaper than a lot of UNIX platforms, and the new
2.6 kernel is a lot better on load(s) than 2.4.

On 2006-05-09, Double Echo <doubleecho@your.com> wrote:
> lhelton@gmail.com wrote:
>> Now don't laugh....we are still running SE 5.0 & 4GL 4.10
>> on SCO Unix 3.2v4.2
>>
>> All my apps are still humming, but lord please don't let my hardware
>> fail! I'm too embarrassed to tell you what the hardware is.....but hey,
>> it works! I'm an old-time Informix developer (with a pretty face), that
>> feels trapped in the old days.
>>
>> Planning to migrate away from SCO and upgrade to SE 7.25 & 4GL/SQL 7.32
>> on a Linux platform. Any recommendations for Linux flavor?
>
> SuSE 10. But also consider AMD Opteron not Intel Xeon. You'll get more
> for the money. Should also be thinking x86_64 if you're in the x86 space.
> If you're into other kinds of hardware, IBM has a lot going on with Power5
> you should check out too.

Why are you guys all gung ho on SuSE ???


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Julien Mills said:
> On 2006-05-09, Double Echo <doubleecho@your.com> wrote:
>> lhelton@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Now don't laugh....we are still running SE 5.0 & 4GL 4.10
>>> on SCO Unix 3.2v4.2
>>>
>>> All my apps are still humming, but lord please don't let my hardware
>>> fail! I'm too embarrassed to tell you what the hardware is.....but hey,
>>> it works! I'm an old-time Informix developer (with a pretty face), that
>>> feels trapped in the old days.
>>>
>>> Planning to migrate away from SCO and upgrade to SE 7.25 & 4GL/SQL 7.32
>>> on a Linux platform. Any recommendations for Linux flavor?
>>
>> SuSE 10. But also consider AMD Opteron not Intel Xeon. You'll get more
>> for the money. Should also be thinking x86_64 if you're in the x86
>> space.
>> If you're into other kinds of hardware, IBM has a lot going on with
>> Power5
>> you should check out too.
>
> Why are you guys all gung ho on SuSE ???

Because RatHed is a pile of shit.

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I intend to recover my loan now, which could cause the parliamentary
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has: an accumulated deficit and a reliance on loans from officers and
affiliates to pay expenses. It is not an operating political party. The
party is going to need financing to continue as a going concern. A failure
to finance could cause the party to go out of business. This report shall
not be construed as any kind of investment advice or solicitation. You can
lose all your money by investing in this party.

Thanks Ben. But I'm sticking with Standard Engine (SE) for now.
I like simple.....

Julien Mills wrote:
> On 2006-05-09, Double Echo <doubleecho@your.com> wrote:
>> lhelton@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Now don't laugh....we are still running SE 5.0 & 4GL 4.10
>>> on SCO Unix 3.2v4.2
>>>
>>> All my apps are still humming, but lord please don't let my hardware
>>> fail! I'm too embarrassed to tell you what the hardware is.....but hey,
>>> it works! I'm an old-time Informix developer (with a pretty face), that
>>> feels trapped in the old days.
>>>
>>> Planning to migrate away from SCO and upgrade to SE 7.25 & 4GL/SQL 7.32
>>> on a Linux platform. Any recommendations for Linux flavor?
>> SuSE 10. But also consider AMD Opteron not Intel Xeon. You'll get more
>> for the money. Should also be thinking x86_64 if you're in the x86 space.
>> If you're into other kinds of hardware, IBM has a lot going on with Power5
>> you should check out too.
>
> Why are you guys all gung ho on SuSE ???
>
>

1. Historically a better interface with YAST for managing major software components
compared with others.
2. A lot of leading kernel efforts are being done by SuSE people, head over to
www.kernel.org and look at who's doing what.
3. Favors RPM installations, although you aren't forced to use RPM exclusively.
4. Historically easier to install and set up than most of the others, however, a
lot of the other distros have improved dramatically. I heard Gentoo either has
a GUI installer or one is coming real soon now.
5. Major vendor support for drivers with more of an international perspective.
6. Excellent platform for businesses with limited Linux experience. The sys admin is
a lot easier for inexperienced sys admins than other distros.
7. Most of the features only now showing up in other distros SuSE has had for quite
some time.

Don't get me wrong, Gentoo is fantastic, RedHat is ok, but lacks a YAST, and Knoppix is
over the top at least on boot-cd-magic and bleeding edge boots-on-anything technology.
RedHat is improving on system admin tools but still requires a lot of behind the scenes
command-line tinkering. YaST is open source too, RH should consider using it.

If you really want a Linux education, head over to www.linuxfromscratch.org and get the
book on building your own linux system from scratch, it will give you more experience
than any distro could ever give you, and you can then make better choices on Linux
distributions after going through the best tutorial on Linux systems ever done.

-DE-

Thanks 2Echo. We'll be using Intel,x86.
Still stand by SUSE 10?

lhelton@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks 2Echo. We'll be using Intel,x86.
> Still stand by SUSE 10?
>
Absolutely!