Linux Recommendations

Hi Rob,

I really don't see any problem here. If you want to run your Aida
applications under a Linux server, the "hard part", if there is one,
will be to setup your linux box.

Squeak and VW are cross plateform, and so is Aida. It will work as it
does under Windows or MacOS. I use Linux, Janko too, without any
trouble.

PS: If you want some help to configure Apache, don't hesitate to ask.

Just wondering what flavor of Linux anybody out there would recommend to ensure minimal difficulty getting a standard Swazoo/Aida image to run.  I am NOT a Linux guy...my experience with Unix flavors goes back to VAX and Cromemco FORTRAN and Pascal programming...

However, we managed to get pretty standard server with dual processors and 16GB or RAM, but couldn't scrape enough money together for our a version of Microsoft Server that can handle that much memory...!  (I'm not wishing we did, it's just that's what our outsourced IT department primarily supports!)

Anyway, just looking for experiences.  I am not planning on doing anything "fancy" right now except serving up Squeak Aida applications and hopefully some VMWare appliances to let us run some existing MS Access data transformation tools we have built.

I just thought I'd ask here because I didn't want to have a hard time with Aida since my application is coming along so nicely!

Thanks,

Rob

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Ubuntu just works.  I installed the Squeak package without any problems.  I'm happy to help you through installation.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Chris Dawson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Ubuntu just works.  I installed the Squeak package without any problems.  I'm happy to help you through installation.

Thank you...that's what I was looking at.  I can download the server edition...and then I'm not sure about any configuration questions I will need answers to!

Rob

You should just need to do within an xterm:

sudo apt-get install squeak

Or, use Synaptic or Aptitude.

I cannot recall if I needed to enable extra repositories or not.  This is simple to do; Ubuntu might be configured by default to only use the standard repositories.  If this command above does not work, email me and I'll help you through it.

Chris

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Rob Rothwell <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Chris Dawson <[hidden email]> wrote:

Ubuntu just works.  I installed the Squeak package without any problems.  I'm happy to help you through installation.

Thank you...that's what I was looking at.  I can download the server edition...and then I'm not sure about any configuration questions I will need answers to!

Rob