Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (46 mails)

[Darren Jones <darren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Lynch wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 09:03 +0100, Andy Trevor wrote:
>
>   
> > 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.

> I was under the impression there were more general problems and a
> Windows server was required or a Citrix connection to a windows server.
> It would be useful to get accurate facts on this for dealings with
> BECTA.
>
>   
Correct. A windows terminal server is required to run the KS3 software 
'on' linux. The application so far only runs on windows. RM are selling 
it as cross-platform -it isn't.