[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[John Dallman]

In article <v0lm82$2gs$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

> Yes!  And the odds are that if I got your binary distribution I 
> could probably make it run fine on Slackware (without systemd) 
> after spending an afternoon or two playing with libraries and 
> moving files around. Because Linux distributions don't vary 
> THAT much.
> 
> But, were I to do that, if I called you for support on your 
> software and explained I was running it on Slackware, the odds 
> are that the first thing you would do would be to tell me to 
> move it to a supported RH system.

I can do better than that. Assuming Distrowatch's page on Slackware is
accurate, I can tell you that it should run on Slackware 15.0 or later
and definitely won't run on 14.2 or earlier. That much, I can get from
the glibc and gcc versions. 

If it won't run for you on 15.0 or later, then I'll ask you to try a RHEL
work-alike, to eliminate the possibility that it's something about your
local setup. 

If it works on Rocky and not on Slackware 15.0, then I'll start asking
more detailed questions and getting a Slackware VM set up. 

> And that is why.... I and many thousands of others run RH when we 
> actually don't like the direction RH is heading at all.

I don't like it either. It's legal, but it's not in the spirit of the GPL.
I would like to find a Linux that has the same advantages as RHEL as a
build platform, but there doesn't appear to be one.

We use RHEL for actual build machines, because we have greater confidence
that it will carry on getting security patches than we have for its
work-alikes. But we use Rocky and Alma for most of the testing, and keep
SUSE Enterprise and Ubuntu in the testing pool in case patches to them,
or to our software, break something. 

John