[TriLUG] Migrating to Fedora

[Roger Broseus via TriLUG]

You are out of my league. And, I left SUSE behind years ago.

However, you might consider docker. You create a "container" that has the stuff that you need and run it anywhere. It's NOT virtualization, and NOT a whole OS. I believe that Red Hat is a developer.

http://novalug.com/meetings/2016/12/docker-everyone

Good luck.

⁣Roger Broseus
www.bronord.com​

On Dec 26, 2016, 10:57, at 10:57, Paul Boyle via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>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
>
>________________________________________
>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.
>
>--
>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
>
>
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