[TriLUG] Migrating to Fedora

[Paul Boyle via TriLUG]

Thanks for the suggestion Roger.  However, I don't know if that will address the issue (which I didn't explain in my first email).  I've tried installing the vendor's new software (called Apex3) on an OpenSuSE system.  The main problem is a run time problem: Apex3 is a Python application, and rather than having the software as a bunch of modules which integrate with the natively installed stock Python interpreter, the vendor supplies their own specially hacked Python interpreter (called bnpython).  This causes problems in that bnpython can't find certain stock modules like hashlib (which are installed with my native Python installation).  There might be some Python administration wizardly which might be able to get bnpython looking in the right places for the standard modules, but I don't know it.

I thought I could make my life easier if I just buckled under and used Fedora.

Paul

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From: Roger W. Broseus <RogerB at bronord.com>
Sent: December 26, 2016 11:44:37 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Migrating to Fedora

Paul,

Given your applications, have you considered Scientific Linux?
    https://www.scientificlinux.org

The National Institutes of Standards and Technology is, I believe, into Linux. I have a couple of contacts there that might be of help.

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Roger W. Broseus - Linux User
    Email: RogerB at bronord.com<mailto:RogerB at bronord.com>
    Web Site: www.bronord.com<http://www.bronord.com>


On 12/26/2016 09:43 AM, Paul Boyle via TriLUG wrote:

Hi,

I am considering a moving my laboratory's linux workstations from running OpenSuSE 13.1 to the current Fedora distribution.  The reason is that my lab runs scientific instrumentation (single crystal X-ray diffractometers) which run under Linux.  The old version of the instrument vendor's software was originally intended to run on RHEL.  I was able to make it run under OpenSuSE.  The newest version of the instrument vendor's software has major changes which prevent me from making it work on OpenSuSE.  The vendor currently supports Fedora only.

I use NFS pretty extensively in my lab's computing environment for moving data between the various Linux boxes. So, here is my question:  Should I use Fedora Workstation or Fedora Server?  I guess another way of putting is the question is:  Is it possible (and easy) to install NFS server software on Fedora Workstation?

Thanks for any guidance.

Paul