is it possible Fedora -> Debian?

[david.pospisil]

I found that App Logic applicances run mainly on
Fedora, but almost all of our computers are running on Debian (etch), so it
would be nice if there would be some possibillity to change the default linux
distribution in App Logic. I searched your forums and I found that there is
some way to do this, but it was quite complicated way and there is a natural
question: Would you still support your product after changing Fedora to
Debian?

[PeterNic]

David,

AppLogic will run appliances with any Linux distro. Between customers and our QA department, I know that at least the following have been tried and worked:

Fedora Core 3, 6, 7 -- http://fedoraproject.org
CentOS 4.3, 4.4, 5 -- http://www.centos.org
Debian 3.1 (sarge), 4.0 (etch) -- http://www.debian.org
Ubuntu (Dapper) -- http://www.ubuntu.com
SuSE -- http://www.novell.com/linux
Slackware 12 -- http://www.slackware.com


In addition, a customer built a really small Linux appliance in a self-built distro, using Busybox (http://www.busybox.net); several have added kernel modules and/or rebuilt the kernel with different options.

We obviously cannot support appliances that we didn't build, but we will certainly support you in making such appliances work (and troubleshooting them if they misbehave, as long as the problems appear to be AppLogic-related).

My guess is that the only appliances you really may want to create using your own distro are 4:

LINUX (full distro base, with dev tools)
LUX (a nice, tight base appliance for building custom appliances)
WEB (that's usually the most used/branched appliance)
MYSQL (maybe, if you need a custom build)


All the others -- gateways, load balancers, etc., -- you probably don't care if they run Linux, Cisco IOS (just kidding) or an embedded Linux.

In addition, you may want to create a GSD - Grid Server on Debian.

Regards,
-- Peter