Omnis 6 and Debian 9 Linux

[Mayada Al-Kishtini]

Hi Paul,

Interesting! Thank you so much for sharing this info; very new to me and useful to know that it could work if one needs it.

Thank you and Best Regards, 
Mayada

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> On Nov 12, 2019, at 8:14 PM, Paul Mulroney <pmulroney at logicaldevelopments.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mayada,
> 
> Omnis Studio 3.x through to 6.x had a version that would run on X-windows on Linux.  With those versions you needed to have a GUI environment loaded for Studio to run.  We usually setup VNC, so we could access it remotely.  You would create a VNC session to launch on system start, and in the startup script it would launch Omnis.  It was pretty fast - Studio 3 ran faster on Linux than it did on Windows or Mac of the time.
> 
> We have a client using Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP), with 6 diskless clients that net-boot Linux.  They run their business using a Studio 4.3 app.  The hardware is very cheap, machine failures can be swapped out in minutes.  It can cold-boot a workstation in 30 seconds (seriously!) so they can get up and running faster than anything else I've seen.  I heard recently that the current version of LTSP supports raspberry pi, so that means you could have $100 workstations with almost zero desktop footprint that net-boot in no time flat.
> 
> The current versions of Omnis run as "Headless" in that there is no GUI.  This  is much better from a technical and security standpoint, because the majority of Linux servers do not have GUI loaded, so it's more likely to run on your particular distro/server environment.  (That said, it doesn't run on CentOS 6, which is what we're using...)
> 
> Also, for the record, I've seen a Windows version of Omnis run on Linux using the Wine libs.  There's a few really odd things with that, mainly to do with droplists etc.  BUT - you can do it if you need to...
> 
> Regards,
> Paul.
> 
> 
>> On 13 Nov 2019, at 6:32 am, Mayada Al-Kishtini <malkishtini at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Andy,
>> 
>> I have not encountered this problem yet. Sorry!
>> However I'm wondering how can you run Omnis windows in a Linux env.? My understanding so far was that Omnis can only run as a service under Linux with no interface to the app, maybe be I have a wrong understanding then..
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Mayada
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: omnisdev-en [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com] On Behalf Of Andy Hilton
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 5:16 PM
>> To: OmnisDev List - English
>> Subject: Omnis 6 and Debian 9 Linux
>> 
>> I have just upgraded one of our many Debian servers from Debian 8 to Debian 9, which all went ok…..
>> 
>> I run a dev version of Omnis 6 (the last I believe that supports Linux for dev), and have seen a rather alarming situation where, with multiple Omnis windows open, I do something (could be anything) and all of a sudden the various Omnis open windows all start to flash really fast back an forth amongst themselves, necessitating me having to kill the process to get out of it…..
>> 
>> All was good in prior Debian, so it must be a display issue in this incarnation - not expecting it, but wondering if anyone has ever seen anything similar or could offer any advice ??
>> 
>> 
>> Andy Hilton
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