Recently downloaded Delphi10.2 Tokyo, a trial, feel good, especially for the development of Linux, finally came out, you can consider the original server recompile to use on the redhat, lest customers all the time shouting Windows unsafe, the requirements on Linux.
The installation process is nothing special, to compile Linux programs, you must also download the plugin fmxlinux, plug-in installation is relatively simple, here not much to say.
Tokyo currently supports only
Ubuntu Server (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
RedHat Enterprise Linux (version 7)
Whether CentOS can be used is unclear, which day to try, after all, the kernel is still the same.
Install Redhat note, after all, Windows used to be accustomed to, did not take the time to remember the Linux command, so the installation must choose the GUI mode, and the development tools to select the installation, or Tokyo after connecting the Radhat SDK deployment, Unable to download the corresponding development package causes the link to fail.
In addition, when testing TCP/IP, the data passed if it is a string, you need to follow UTF8 encoding, otherwise the Windows Client Access Linux under the server, will report the encoding exception causes the connection to close, the client feedback is connection closed gracefully error.
There is also attention to shutting down the Linux firewall.
How to run ODAC under Linux haven't tried yet, next time try.
Delphi10.2 Tokyo Trial (1)