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I'm curious, what Platform and O/S do you use to develop Hobbit Henrik?
Al Jeffcoat
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:45:27AM -0400, Jeffcoat, Al wrote:
I'm curious, what Platform and O/S do you use to develop Hobbit Henrik?
Mostly Linux - Debian - on Intel and UltraSPARC hardware.
My primary development system runs Linux - specifically, Kubuntu 5.04 on an AMD-Athlon box. It used to be Mandrake, but I switched a couple of months ago after hearing good things about Ubuntu. So far I am very happy with that change.
On my home network I also have an Debian/Sarge server - it also handles the www.hswn.dk website and the Hobbit mailing list. Plus it doubles as a fileserver for my home network. This is one of the first places new code is being tested - it's an old P/II based box, but it's got lots of disk space and you really don't need that much CPU capacity when it's mainly a fileserver for a couple of desktops.
Another box on the home network is a StrongARM based system (a "Netwinder" from a now-deceased Canadian company). It's a funny little box - only downside is that it only has 64 MB RAM. It also runs Debian, since that is about the only OS available for that architecture. That one is mostly used just to make sure it compiles.
At work I have a handful of Sun E220 UltraSPARC systems - two sets of three boxes. One set is my main production system for Hobbit, the other is a hot standby in case the primary system fails - but I also use it for load-testing of new Hobbit versions. These now run Debian/Sarge - I haven't been terribly impressed by Solaris' performance. Especially back when I was using the old BB setup - it really hit some of the performance bottlenecks in Solaris (it has a very high overhead for fork/exec system calls that happen a lot because of all the shell scripts BB use).
I do have a single Ultra5 SPARC desktop system with Solaris 8; it handles our SMS gateway software and since there's no Linux-on-SPARC Java run-time environment, that one needs to run Solaris. So I use it for compile-testing Hobbit before a release, just to check that I haven't missed something that will show up right away when you guys start building on non-Linux systems.
And I have a VMware setup with FreeBSD and Fedora for checking compiles on the *BSD systems, and to build the RPM's for a release.
Yep .... that about covers it, I think :-)
Regards, Henrik
Henrik Stoerner wrote on 24/06/2005 09:57:20:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:45:27AM -0400, Jeffcoat, Al wrote:
I'm curious, what Platform and O/S do you use to develop Hobbit Henrik?
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Have you ever considered including a cygwin port? (http://www.cygwin.com)
That would give a nice BB alternative to our Win32 only bretheren :-)
Andy.
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 10:27:09AM +1200, Andy France wrote:
Henrik Stoerner wrote on 24/06/2005 09:57:20:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:45:27AM -0400, Jeffcoat, Al wrote:
I'm curious, what Platform and O/S do you use to develop Hobbit Henrik?
<SNIP>
Have you ever considered including a cygwin port? (http://www.cygwin.com)
That would be absolutely horrible!
I do use Cygwin at work to maintain my sanity while forced to use WinXP, but although Hobbit might compile on Cygwin, I shudder at the thought of debugging the IPC- and network-problems that I am sure would show up immediately.
That would give a nice BB alternative to our Win32 only bretheren :-)
I'd rather use Hobbit to lure them away from the Dark Side.
Regards, Henrik
Henrik Stoerner wrote on 24/06/2005 10:34:44:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 10:27:09AM +1200, Andy France wrote:
Henrik Stoerner wrote on 24/06/2005 09:57:20:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:45:27AM -0400, Jeffcoat, Al wrote:
I'm curious, what Platform and O/S do you use to develop Hobbit
Henrik?
<SNIP>
Have you ever considered including a cygwin
port? (http://www.cygwin.com)
That would be absolutely horrible!
I do use Cygwin at work to maintain my sanity while forced to use WinXP, but although Hobbit might compile on Cygwin, I shudder at the thought of debugging the IPC- and network-problems that I am sure would show up immediately.
Hmmmm... cygserver and ipc support are there... but not being a programmer i can only imagine what a horrible cludge they would feel like!
That would give a nice BB alternative to our Win32 only bretheren :-)
I'd rather use Hobbit to lure them away from the Dark Side.
:-) World domination, here we come!
Regards, Henrik
Andy.
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For general information I have it running on SLES9 on zSeries and it works wonderfully.
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:45:27AM -0400, Jeffcoat, Al wrote:
I'm curious, what Platform and O/S do you use to develop Hobbit Henrik?
Mostly Linux - Debian - on Intel and UltraSPARC hardware.
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