[rt-users] Advice for New Machine

[Ken Crocker]

Sean,


    Can I assume your voting for Linux?


Kenn

On 3/13/2009 1:26 PM, Sean wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 15:16 -0500, John Arends wrote:
>   
>> Gary Greene wrote:
>>     
>>> I would go CentOS for the machine if you're a RH person, since it is 
>>> practically the same thing, and there are more than a few of us CentOS 
>>> users running RT with our own RPMs.
>>>   
>>>       
>> What version of RT are you running on top of CentOS? With 3.8.2 there 
>> are so many dependencies it seems to be a near impossible task to build 
>> RPMs for all the required perl modules. I've been playing with the 
>> script included with RT and it does a pretty good job of pulling 
>> everything down from CPAN and installing it.
>>     
>
> We recently updated from 3.6 to 3.8. I tried to get 3.8.2 going in an
> OpenSolaris (snv_101) zone and Ubuntu 8.10 (also tried Jaunty alpha)
> server installation. Neither was anywhere close to a clean install, and
> neither worked to my level of satisfaction. I ended up using a Gentoo
> server. In my opinion, Gentoo and RT 3.8 is a pretty good match. Being a
> source based distribution helps, I think.
>
> Just my 2c.
>
> -Sean
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