[news.eclipse.tools] Re: What Linux distributions are being supported?

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Thomson wrote:

> Steve,
> Here is what we know.
> At present the drops have been fully tested on RH 6.2 only.  We have done
> some preliminary testing on RH 7.1 and it seems to work OK.  There are
> problems that prevent it from working on the RH 7.2 beta - we hang on
> startup when running on roswell (redhat beta 3 -- also known as 7.1.93). 
> We are working on this problem and hope to have it working on 7.2 sometime
> by
> fall.  We are going to change the drop pages to make a clearer statement
> about what OS versions we think are really working.
> 
> At present we have not done much testing on other linux variants, although
> others have tried it.  There was a recent post indicating it was pretty
> flashy on SuSe (7.1 I think).
> 
> You could try posting a note to the newsgroup asking about other people's
> experiences on various linux variants.
> 
> Hope this helps.  If you want to know the platforms for the IBM supported
> versions of WSWB i.e. the IBM supported version of Eclipse... then best to
> direct the question to wrkbench@xxxxxxxxxx or John Kellerman to get a
> statement about supported platforms.
> 
> 
> "Steve Francisco" <cisco@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:3B7B37D7.7FE11EA7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Is there a list of which Linux distributions and versions that are
>> supported?  In know that Red Hat 6.2 is, but what about later versions
>> (7.1), and other flavors (SuSE, Caldera, etc)?
>>
>> By 'supported' I mean can I build a commerical product, and all that
>> implies, on Eclipse that *needs* to work on SuSE 7.1?
>> -- Steve
>>

Just for record I have it working very happily on Debian Woody with
kernel 2.4.5.