RE: Is Scientfic Linux Still Active as a Distribution?

2020-02-22 Thread Eremey Valetov
Hello All, Here are my two cents on this matter. 1. I think that it is very likely that CentOS or a similar Linux distribution will be available in the long-term. When that is no longer the case, that may quite likely be due to broad issues affecting the Linux operating system as a

Re: Is Scientfic Linux Still Active as a Distribution?

2020-02-22 Thread Yasha Karant
From below: Will look forward to move to another distribution. End excerpt. The question is:  which distro?  My first hope was Oracle EL 8 -- given that Oracle has to compete with IBM and thus, unlike CentOS that may or may not fit into the profit/business long term plan of IBM (long term --

Re: Is Scientfic Linux Still Active as a Distribution?

2020-02-22 Thread Marcelo Ferrarotti
Hello there, I'm quite sad about SL EoL. I'm no scientist, just an electronics guy who do a lot of research in RF (as hobby, mostly testing antennas for ham radio in VHF bands) from Argentina. Fot SL the most "well done" linux distribution, for people who simply knows. Will look forward to

Is Scientfic Linux Still Active as a Distribution?

2020-02-22 Thread Keith Lofstrom
I'm an independent electronics inventor, heavily dependent on both competent software and competent laboratory science, both for the knowledge I depend on and the tools I use to transform that knowledge into products and services for my customers. SL has been a very good tool for that. Thanks

Re: EL 8

2020-02-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 9:02 PM Mark Rousell wrote: > > On 03/02/2020 21:39, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > > On 3. Feb 2020, at 22:23, ONeal, Miles > <0be99a30c213-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > And there's no real reason to get the source from anywhere but RHEL, since > it's