[ale] Fw: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Free Linux CDs

[rob hoppe]

Matt Shade wrote:

> This post is from another list...thought someone here might be able to
> answer his RPM question better than I. BTW, swinstall and patch/ix are the
> tools used in HP-UX and MPE for patches and product updates.
>
> matt shade
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Gambrell" <richard-gambrell at UTC.EDU>
> To: <HP3000-L at RAVEN.UTC.EDU>
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 08:21
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Free Linux CDs
>
> > Peter Osborne wrote:
> > >
> > > On December 6, 2001 02:59 pm, Shawn Gordon wrote:
> > > > well you picked the only one that you can't really order - As far as I
> > > > know there isn't a debian based distro left, the Progeny installer is
> > > > crap and I don't know if they are still shipping it.  I put Debian on
> my
> > > > Apple laptop and it took a week of painful work, but now that it's
> > > > running it is so much better than an RPM based distro.
> > >
> > > Oh, and I just remembered. Libranet is based on Debian and you must buy
> it,
> > > no free download. Never tried it myself though. Storm & Progreny are the
> only
> > > 2 I tried, both have since closed shop. (I really liked Storm, it was my
> > > first install, too bad)
> > >
> >
> > OK, now you Linux guys have to explain what's so bad about RPM? From what
> > I've seen sof ar, it seems like a godsend compared to swinstall and even
> > patch/ix.
> >

Swinstall makes things work like RPM but it makes a notation in the software
load tables.  Anyone who looks at it using SWINFO can tell what has been updated
and when.  Patch/ix does the same thing on the 3000.  The machines are identical
hardware wise but different OSes and firmware to keep you from loading MPE/iX on
a HPUX machine.  The HPUX family has exceeded the MPE/iX family and HP has
decided to drop the MPE/iX family after many great years of proprietary systems
leadership.  MPE/iX running Oracle will run 10 times faster than an identical
HPUX box.

Carly has to go for HP to go forward now!

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