* Alex Turner (armtuk@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > First off - very few third party tools support debian. Debian is a sure > fire way to have an unsupported system. Use RedHat or SuSe (flame me all > you want, it doesn't make it less true). Yeah, actually, it does make it less true since, well, it's really not all that true to begin with. What you're probably intending to say is that fewer companies say "Works with Debian!" on their advertising material or list it as "officially supported". I've had *very* few problems running commercial apps on Debian (including things like Oracle and IBM SAN management software). Generally it's just take the rpms and either install them *using* rpm (which is available in Debian...) or use alien to convert them to a tarball and/or deb. HP is actually pretty big into Debian and I'd be curious as to what the problems installing the monitoring tools were. My guess is that the issue is actually some kernel module or something, in which case any kernel that they don't build the module (or write it, depending..) for may be problematic. This would probably include some releases of RedHat/SuSe (ES, Fedora, who knows) and pretty much any kernel you build using sources off of kernel.org or for any other distribution unless you know exactly what versions/patches they support. Feel free to contact me off-list if you'd like to continue this discussion since I don't really see it as appropriate for this list. Thanks, Stephen
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