[CentOS] OT hardware question

Fri Jan 31 20:12:18 UTC 2014
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:31 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>
>> Are you saying it worked right in 5.x?  If that's the case, why not
>> wait until 2017 for something else?
>
> Because it has to work, perfectly, right now and every day, 24x7x365.25.
> Turning it down is not an option.

Did it do that under 5.x, or did you ever have it in production?

> And it *does* work on some of the servers, there's just a few that have
> issues, and in some cases, I have no clue why, as they're similar or the
> same.

The bug reports I see relate to kernel versions.

>>> I hear a couple years ago, $10? $19.99?, but my manage says he'd like to
>>> get out of the business of making video surveillance work, when there's
>>> off-the-shelf stuff out there.
>>>
>>> And we do have some budget for things that need to be done, and security
>>> is required (and if we do it, it's a lot less than other options...).
>>
>> Seems like the sort of thing that would have cross platform java software.
>
> Just using std. repos....

Seems like you have exhausted that already, though.  And java apps
tend to be fairly self-contained and easy to manage separately - since
linux distros have been so weird about supporting it.

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   Les Mikesell
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