Re: OSes for testing

From: Murray S. Kucherawy <msk_at_blackops.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:00:25 -0800 (PST)

On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Daniel Black wrote:
>> AIX might be useful, but is it supported by VMWare?
>
> VMWare on the right hardware provides full virtualisation. This should
> be enough to get it going whether VMWare Inc support it or not. There
> have been some Internet reports of it working.

I've just been doing this on my IBM laptop, and apparently that means I
can't run AIX in VMware here. So we'd need to set it up some other way.

> I was suggesting these to follow a more enterprise base of deployment.
> The packages are definitely older on Centos which may affect identify
> new errors that the others wouldn't. Fedora is generally to bleeding
> edge (says the Gentoo guy :)

So if I had to add just one from your list, you'd suggest CentOS?
Received on Wed Nov 04 2009 - 22:00:42 PST

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