Message boards : Number crunching : Are un supported operating systems welcome here ?
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River~~ Send message Joined: 20 Feb 06 Posts: 20 Credit: 503 RAC: 0 |
I have just attached a WinME box to this project, and am wondering if this is a useful thing to do. I realise that Win9x an WinME are not officually supported by Rosetta or Ralph, so that any operating ystem specific bugs that come to light may well not warrant attention. However my thinking is that even if the bugs are not fixed, given that a number of people currently do run Rosetta with unsupported OS's, it might be useful to know about any problems up front? If you tell me this is a bad idea, I will happily remove this box from Ralph right away. River~~ |
Astro Send message Joined: 16 Feb 06 Posts: 141 Credit: 32,977 RAC: 0 |
I didn't know it was an issue, sorry, I've been successfully using my win98se machine here. |
dekim Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 20 Jan 06 Posts: 250 Credit: 543,579 RAC: 0 |
Yes, go ahead and attach them. |
Nuadormrac Send message Joined: 22 Feb 06 Posts: 68 Credit: 11,362 RAC: 0 |
Well, even if a bug does show up with a winME box, in the course of testing, some info that would help isolate it could come to light in comparing the result, say river might get here, to a result others of us do... For instance (albeit I have a winXP SP2 box here), on uFluids there was a given WU of a new type over there that proved problematic... The tell tale sign was when I checked the WU ID, and even though we didn't all have the same OS/comp config, every single person the WU was issued to got a computing error, with an early abort, with practically the same stderr... If a winME box is the only one to see the prob, it could suggest OS... I suppose there are enough clients of other type to see if the rest of us see some of these problems also, or not... |
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