Astaro runs on the Intel platform (if I understand your question correctly). Earlier versions also run on the Sun Cobalt Cube (I'm not sure if this is an Intel platform or not). Astaro is a complete out of the box firewal solution - you do not need to run it on another Linux distribution - think of ASL as a specialised firewall Linux distribution. If you want to compile additional applications for Astaro you need to download and install the "Plus Pack" - this includes compilers etc required to compile new applications. Since Astaro is Intel based you should not need to do anyhting special to get applications to compile and run.
guess redhat could run (version 7.3) according to the libs found on the firewall. Make sure that all libs needed are available (ldd ) and if there are missing ones you'd have to copy them to the firewall. I assume that you don't have the source code - otherwise the pluspack could be an option.
I agree with cyclops on this. The libs from RH7.3 are mostly compatible. If you are missing a lib you can build it with the pluspack (provided that you are missing a GPL lib). Happy hacking
"The Redhat package is designed for Redhat distributions and runs only with redhat near distributions like Mandrake or Corel. The SuSE package runs on Debian, Caldera and most of the Linux distributions. So the Suse package should be your first pick. Switch to the redhat package when errors appear only."
From my experience it is more RH but I cannot tell you which package to use since I do not know all the specifics of the package. Try'em both would be my advice [;)]
ASL is its own distribution of Linux. As far as I can tell, while there may be similarities, ASL is different from Redhat or Debian.
If a package is asking what distribution you are installing it on, most likely, it is trying to determine where to edit the bootscripts to insert itself.
ASL does not use debian OR redhat style scripts. The ASL bootscript is located at:
/etc/rc.d/boot
You'll probably have to compile whatever it is you are installing, then install it by hand. Be sure you know what you're doing, and backup the boot scripts before and after, since they are likely targets to be overwritten with an up2date.
