Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (46 mails)

[Christopher Dawkins <cchd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> I had a long chat with the RM team about three weeks ago.  It was still up
>>> and running then, however it will only run on Redhat.
>>
>> Why specifically? It would be interesting to know what the specific
>> dependencies are because if they are simply lack of sensible planning
>> for open standards it needs highlighting. Or is it just its only
>> guaranteed to run on RH?
>>
> The installer is generic - reading through it says :
> ##### not yet properly tested in SUSE or Debian #####
> Though it would probably work with some tweaking.
> There are also other generic instructions in the readme for fedora etc.
> I don't see a problem with RM only supporting RHEL - There are so many distros
> around they couldn't support them all.

Why can't they support them all?

Multiplatform technology is not rocket science, just common sense.

I am writing Apache/PHP/MySQL applications that I know transfer seamlessly
from my FreeBSD host with Konqueror clients to Windows hosts with IE
clients.


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