What is the easiest *nix to use with RT

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Hi.

What is the easiest version *nix to use with RT. I am stuck with an IBM
Optiplex GX260 for my evaluation of RT. I have tried RH9 without much
luck. I have tried Debian Linux 3.0 r2 woody, but I can’t even get
X-windows to load; very few drivers, etc. Anything out there which
might work for me?

Thanks in advance,
Ron

Ron Tyro
Scotiabank Information Commmons, University of Toronto
130 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H1

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FreeBSD here :)On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Ron Tyro wrote:

}Hi.
}
}What is the easiest version *nix to use with RT. I am stuck with an IBM
}Optiplex GX260 for my evaluation of RT. I have tried RH9 without much
}luck. I have tried Debian Linux 3.0 r2 woody, but I can’t even get
}X-windows to load; very few drivers, etc. Anything out there which
}might work for me?
}
}Thanks in advance,
}Ron
}
}

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Hi.

What is the easiest version *nix to use with RT. I am stuck with an IBM
Optiplex GX260 for my evaluation of RT. I have tried RH9 without much
luck. I have tried Debian Linux 3.0 r2 woody, but I can’t even get
X-windows to load; very few drivers, etc. Anything out there which
might work for me?

Just enter

apt-get install request-tracker3

under debian/sarge.

I think, rt3 is also part of the FreeBSD ports.

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Hi!

Hi.

What is the easiest version *nix to use with RT. I am stuck with an IBM
Optiplex GX260 for my evaluation of RT. I have tried RH9 without much
luck. I have tried Debian Linux 3.0 r2 woody, but I can’t even get
X-windows to load; very few drivers, etc. Anything out there which
might work for me?

Take a look at FreeBSD-4.x-STABLE.

Ron

WBR
bsam

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Same here, also NetBSD on powermac G4 :-).

Cheers
PaulOn Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Matthew Joseff wrote:

FreeBSD here :slight_smile:

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Ron Tyro wrote:

}Hi.
}
}What is the easiest version *nix to use with RT. I am stuck with an IBM
}Optiplex GX260 for my evaluation of RT. I have tried RH9 without much
}luck. I have tried Debian Linux 3.0 r2 woody, but I can’t even get
}X-windows to load; very few drivers, etc. Anything out there which
}might work for me?
}
}Thanks in advance,
}Ron
}
}

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FreeBSD 4.x

We have an Optiplex GX1(blurf) that we have used as a test machine in
the past; I don’t remember any difficulties at all with it. Can’t swear
that X was running, since it lives in the server room – but X is
generally pretty easy to get going with FreeBSD.

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Hi Ron,

Ron Tyro wrote:

What is the easiest version *nix to use with RT. I am stuck with an IBM
Optiplex GX260 for my evaluation of RT.

This is being typed on FreeBSD on an Optiplex GX270 which configured up
very easy. We also run our RT instance on FreeBSD.

I’d recommend FreeBSD and the RT3 port.

Carl.