[Tinyos-1.2wg] Re: [Tinyos-1.2wg] Re: 1.2 toolset

[Kristin Wright]

(Keeping in mind the whole self-selectedness thing:)
RedHat Linux 7/8  	    10 votes - 1 %
RedHat 9 	  65 votes - 11 %
Debian Linux 	  55 votes - 9 %
Mandrake Linux 	  20 votes - 3 %
Fedora Core 2 	  27 votes - 4 %
Fedora Core 3 	  34 votes - 5 %
Windows 2000 	  60 votes - 10 %
Windows XP 	  251 votes - 44 %
Max OS X 	  48 votes - 8 %

Another take on this is:
windows: 54%
FC3: 5%
Pre FC3 path (i.e., easy upgrade to FC3): 16%
Debian: 9%

Given your vmware list and given that we believe the user distribution
is something like the above, maybe we shouldn't bother w/vmware. And
since redhat/fc2 support (30%) may well fall out of fc3 support, we
might cover our bases sufficiently by actively supporting FC3, debian
and windows xp (xbow tested windows 2000 for us for 1.1.0 because many
of their users were w2k users at the time; don't know if that is still
of interest to them).  FC3 is only 5%, but we need to move on with the
times -- nudge those old RedHat folks along.

I'm not sure debian is worth official support unless we're actively
trying to increase our level of linux support.  In that case, there of
course is argument for VMWare.

-kw


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:30:21 -0800, David Gay <dgay42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:20:44 -0800, Ion Yannopoulos
> <ion at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > David Gay wrote:
> >
> > >I'm using FC3 for what it's worth. I suspect that whatever we do will
> > >work w/ Redhat 9 => FC3, the question is really what we want to test
> > >things on.
> > >
> > >
> > I'd argue RH9, and FC2 at a minimum.  FC1 does not seem to have many
> > adherents but many people are using FC2, and many are still on RH9.
> > Check out Kristin's poll on tinyos.net.
> 
> The issue is getting machines set up with each environment, or getting
> enough vmware's set up. And to keep us amused, here's vmware's list of
> supported Host linux OSes (you can get others to work, but it's
> sometimes painful):
> 
> # Mandrake Linux 9.0 — stock 2.4.19
> # Mandrake Linux 8.2 — stock 2.4.18-6mdk
> # Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 — stock 2.4.21, update 2.4.21-15.EL
> # Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 — stock 2.4.9-e3
> # Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 — stock 2.4.9-e3
> # Red Hat Linux 9.0 — stock 2.4.20-8, upgrade 2.4.20-20.9
> # Red Hat Linux 8.0 — stock 2.4.18
> # Red Hat Linux 7.3 — stock 2.4.18
> # Red Hat Linux 7.2 — stock 2.4.7-10, upgrade 2.4.9-7, upgrade
> 2.4.9-13, upgrade 2.4.9-21, upgrade 2.4.9-31
> # Red Hat Linux 7.1 — stock 2.4.2-2, upgrade 2.4.3-12
> # Red Hat Linux 7.0 — stock 2.2.16-22, upgrade 2.2.17-14
> # SuSE Linux 9.1 — stock 2.6.4-52
> # SuSE Linux 9.0 — stock 2.4.21-99
> # SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 — stock 2.4.19
> # SuSE Linux 8.2 — stock 2.4.20
> # SuSE Linux 8.1 — stock 2.4.19
> # SuSE Linux 8.0 — stock 2.4.18
> # SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 — stock 2.4.7 and patch 2
> # SuSE Linux 7.3 — stock 2.4.10
> 
> David
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