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I would love to see a similar article diving into Amazon's use of RHEL5, and the eventual slow move to "Amazon Linux". At one point, I had a RHEL5 desktop in S
by mabbo 4y ago
I would love to see a similar article diving into Amazon's use of RHEL5, and the eventual slow move to "Amazon Linux".
At one point, I had a RHEL5 desktop in Seattle, which I could (and had to) develope remotely on from the Toronto office[0]. The software libraries we used depended on something that RHEL5 had and newer versions of Red Hat didn't, as I understood it. Eventually a new and fantastic manager joined the Toronto office and convinced senior management to at least ship the desktops to Toronto.
[0] At the time, the 'office' was the warehouse in Mississauga.
- setheron 4y agoI was always surprised how fast they got NoMachine to work on the VPN. In today's world with tools like Nix and more hermetic build systems that include libc, the need to build on RHEL5 wouldn't exist. Of course it's always good practice to test on the environment you're going to eventually deploy.