Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] XFS vs Ext4

2023-12-05 Thread Yasha Karant
Although CIS compliance (for "security" of assets) may be a requirement, it is not infallible and often gives a false sense of being secure from compromises. Example:

Re: SL6 ssh fail

2023-01-09 Thread Yasha Karant
n 09, 2023 at 03:26:33PM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote: The SL6 issue is a different matter. Not only are various applications vulnerable to compromises from the Internet, but so is the kernel as well as kernel systems support software. This is FUD. Which applications, which exploits? AFAIK, there is

Re: SL6 ssh fail

2023-01-09 Thread Yasha Karant
The hardware issue with VME not connected to any external (Internet accessible) network is a fact of life. The SL6 issue is a different matter. Not only are various applications vulnerable to compromises from the Internet, but so is the kernel as well as kernel systems support software. As

Re: Crucial Computer Program for Particle Physics at Risk of Obsolescence | Quanta Magazine

2023-01-04 Thread Yasha Karant
o not seem to be discussing this issue. Sorry for the intrusion. On 1/4/23 19:14, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 8:34 PM Yasha Karant wrote: Is anyone on this list using or involved with FORM? Although the account below is for the popular press, the content is relevant, as is the

Re: Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution

2022-12-07 Thread Yasha Karant
nks to all for the helpful answers and friendly attitude! Yours, Glenn On 12/7/22, 2:11 PM, "owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov <mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov> on behalf of Yasha Karant" mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fn

Re: Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution

2022-12-07 Thread Yasha Karant
Will CERN/Fermilab provide the same level of support to AlmaLinux that currently is provided for Scientific Linux? Will this list transition into an AlmaLinux list? I have looked at the non-vendor lists for non-vendor ports of production RHEL current (CentOS basically is a vendor port).

Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-05 Thread Yasha Karant
At one time we faced a perhaps similar dilemma: hardware with proprietary software/firmware that would not support then current security/encryption methods/protocols. The hardware could not be replaced for two reasons: it was integrated into specific systems that were in use; the vendor did

Re: Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution

2021-10-25 Thread Yasha Karant
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.centos.org_centos-2Dstream_=DwIDaQ=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A=yAaeW4f9xtdQ08yhjVT7qX0S-gAsNpSY7Id7ezyAphLTZ0NKDsy2d7J4TEXPsD9f=jyhYWm05q9jDkTXiroxs-GQK4CsUiTsZppNzv8Z2wsg= shows

Re: mount -t cifs ... -o username=... file_mode=0777 ignored

2021-08-18 Thread Yasha Karant
nge in a control interface -- motor vehicles need a different interface than a "beast of burden" drawn vehicle, the invention of saddle and stirrups made major improvements to horse riding (but there a still persons who use the older technology). On 8/18/21 03:36, Nico Kadel-Garcia

Re: mount -t cifs ... -o username=... file_mode=0777 ignored

2021-08-18 Thread Yasha Karant
such backward compatibility (perhaps with a warning message), then SuSE as well as EL is not backward compatible. On 8/17/21 8:56 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:21 AM Yasha Karant wrote: This is a poor design decision on the part of the Linux systems implementers

Re: mount -t cifs ... -o username=... file_mode=0777 ignored

2021-08-17 Thread Yasha Karant
ource code sector. Has anyone written a script that converts "old" into CIFS? Yasha Karant On 8/17/21 6:14 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: On 8/17/21 7:38 AM, Ekkard Gerlach wrote: Hi, options gid=users,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 are ignored in SL 6.10: root@arthur:/home/pc41# /bin/mount

Re: Disk reliability - and swap out`

2021-08-10 Thread Yasha Karant
a microscope. Replacing blown fuses is generally done by electronics technicians and they will not honor the request to "just jumper it!". P.P.S. A physics lab is not Boeing with their "only flies down" airplanes and "what time is now?" space ships. K.O.

Re: Disk reliability - and swap out`

2021-08-10 Thread Yasha Karant
(although I do look for such certifications on the actual circuit breaker -- accidents are not nice). On 8/10/21 4:00 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 03:34:00PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: One SSD had an internal short and turned into a space heater, luckily there was no fire. E

Re: Disk reliability - and swap out`

2021-08-10 Thread Yasha Karant
One SSD had an internal short and turned into a space heater, luckily there was no fire. End excerpt. Clearly, there is very poor safety engineering and/or quality control (as with certain Li batteries that did similar things in personal devices being operated by the user). If that SSD had

Re: timeshift

2021-08-09 Thread Yasha Karant
I have added one previous response to this subject below that from Stack. The multiple back-up, remote site, and redundant fail-over described below is of course very desirable and totally infeasible for the end-user situation. As for backing up to the cloud, the user has a USA DSL

Re: timeshift

2021-08-09 Thread Yasha Karant
what she wants. Regards Yasha On 8/8/21 10:19 PM, Andrew Komornicki wrote: Hi, Have you considered just doing a tar on the /home directory on a periodic basis, and just copy the tar file to a backup drive. Simple and easy. regards, Andrew On 8/8/2021 7:38 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: Apple pr

Re: timeshift

2021-08-08 Thread Yasha Karant
/8/21 7:32 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 04:09:04PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: Assuming that she obtains a, say 1 Tbyte, external USB drive (powered from the USB port and either mechanical or SSD), she plans to do incremental backups to the backup drive. ... what ... wo

timeshift

2021-08-08 Thread Yasha Karant
Please see:

bluray burning software application

2021-07-20 Thread Yasha Karant
tested, or know from *RELIABLE* testers to work. Thanks for any suggestions. Yasha Karant

Re: Scientific Linux Advice

2021-06-29 Thread Yasha Karant
Because of vendor update situations and other causes I (and my grad students) have done what you require more than once. The easiest approach -- if you have adequate disk space, etc., it to use Virtual Box (licensed for free) or VMWare (variant depending upon what you need -- the only one

Re: Rocky Linux 8.4 General Availability

2021-06-22 Thread Yasha Karant
ckages one wants. Also, does a bare bones install allow for manual partitioning of a drive (both "hard" and SSD)? Yasha Karant On 6/22/21 4:11 PM, Dave Dykstra wrote: It worked for me just now to use download.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/BaseOS/x86_64/os and select a minimal in

Re: Rocky Linux 8.4 General Availability

2021-06-22 Thread Yasha Karant
intrinsic to the RHEL 8 from IBM RH. Yasha Karant On 6/22/21 8:45 AM, Dave Dykstra wrote: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forums.rockylinux.org_t_rocky-2Dlinux-2D8-2D4-2Davailable-2Dnow=DwICaQ=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaI

Re: hard drive cloning

2021-05-11 Thread Yasha Karant
tire drive including any hard-boot sectors or likewise "reserved" (visible under gparted or the text terminal equivalent). Say /dev/blah1 was /usr, the mount for /dev/blah1 to avoid hilarity might be /dev/usbblah1 , and the like. On 5/11/21 9:39 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Tu

Re: hard drive cloning

2021-05-11 Thread Yasha Karant
Before the UUID method was introduced, cloning was not an issue. This brings up a second issue. Assume that the cloning works using a hardware cloning device -- that has worked before between different vendor's physical hard drives of the nominally same capacity or that worked by cloning a

hard drive cloning

2021-05-11 Thread Yasha Karant
r any info. Yasha Karant

Re: In search for a SL replacement

2021-05-06 Thread Yasha Karant
that would correctly install, say, AlmaLinux 8, from the "binary executable" RPMs, not SRPMs) without the issues that have been described for the current EL8 production Anaconda. Am I missing something? On 5/6/21 7:22 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: On 5/6/21 7:43 PM, Yasha Karant wr

Re: In search for a SL replacement

2021-05-06 Thread Yasha Karant
than Ubuntu LTS major release update. On 5/6/21 5:15 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: On 5/6/21 7:02 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 5:10 PM ~Stack~ wrote: On 5/6/21 3:21 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: Excerpt from a previous post on this matter: On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 02:43

Re: Joint CERN/Fermilab statement on CentOS Linux strategy

2021-05-06 Thread Yasha Karant
Thank you for the "official" announcement and clarification, even without a final date for a decision. If I have not misread what is stated below, I take away three major points: 1. The HEP community (typically, transnational collaborations with local national funding for those groups not

Re: In search for a SL replacement - almalinux

2021-05-06 Thread Yasha Karant
Excerpt from a previous post on this matter: On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 02:43 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: The misfeatures you've groused about are not due to AlmaLinux, they're straight RHEL problems. Let's assign blame and credit where they are due. End excerpt. Presumably, Rocky Linux (IBM

Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

2021-05-05 Thread Yasha Karant
Dave, From the list you reference below, I find Amazon Web Services (AWS) is *NOT* a small (market share, startup, etc) for-profit entity. Is AWS looking at an alternative to licensing IBM RH EL that AWS can use without any license for fee? AWS has ample internal technical staff to

Re: c++17,17,20... - was Re: [SL-Users] Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

2021-05-05 Thread Yasha Karant
What you describe -- replacing a distro's utilities by those from other than the distro -- is done in practice for *SOME* things, as most on this list do. However, under no condition should this be called a stable distro, let alone an "enterprise hardened stable" distro, without the amount of

Re: In search for a SL replacement - almalinux

2021-05-05 Thread Yasha Karant
Thank you for your explicit and detailed observations. I have observations for Ubuntu LTS -- but with much fewer issues when going from SL 7 to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and nothing like using a carryover from a Convex machine. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS respected the non-systems partitions (such as

Re: [SL-Users] Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

2021-05-05 Thread Yasha Karant
these result in a permanent enforceable consent decree against the company and any of its successors -- tied to the intellectual property and the derivatives/successors thereof, not the current owner thereof), the modifications effectively are syntactically "obsolete". Yasha Karan

Re: [SL-Users] Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

2021-05-05 Thread Yasha Karant
cts (crudely, not revealed if A is built before B, but revealed if B is built before A). Yasha Karant On 5/5/21 3:17 AM, Leon Fauster wrote: On 05.05.21 01:11, Mark Rousell wrote: On 04/05/2021 23:41, Leon Fauster wrote: The source are at https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__git.

Re: [SL-Users] Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

2021-05-04 Thread Yasha Karant
I fully concur -- a clear statement of a concern about the source and any authentication/pay-walls limiting access to that source. I assume that the official rebuilders other than SL have paid the necessary fees to download the real, actual, production IBM RH EL buildable source as referenced

Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

2021-05-04 Thread Yasha Karant
The HEP community may have significantly changed since my last accelerator based research efforts (as part of collaborations). If by "site-wide", you mean each individual collaborating group, typically housed at different universities (or equivalent) around the world, has its own sysadmin and

Re: [SL-Users] Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

2021-05-04 Thread Yasha Karant
s, as well as minor release, update production source? On 5/4/21 1:17 PM, Mark Rousell wrote: On 04/05/2021 18:01, Yasha Karant wrote: then one is forced to either Rocky or AlmaLinux, assuming either pushes out an EL 9 clone as soon as CentOS or other IBM RH buildable source is released. Wel

Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

2021-05-04 Thread Yasha Karant
One small point about Princeton, as clearly pointed out to me by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). The Springdale EL distro is NOT from nor supported by Princeton University -- IAS is a separate entity. It appears from what I can garner that Springdale is not a project to which IAS

Re: [SL-Users] any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

2021-05-04 Thread Yasha Karant
, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Yasha, We have no resistance to a hosting a devel mailing list. The drive to have a graphical forum was requests from users in the community. Jack On May 4, 2021, at 13:01, Yasha Karant wrote: If I correctly have read the IBH RH EL9 CentOS announcement below, EL 9 will be i

Re: [SL-Users] Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

2021-05-04 Thread Yasha Karant
ard list. And, many more "non-systems" comments, much less of an "engineering" approach than this list. On 5/4/21 9:46 AM, Leon Fauster wrote: On 04.05.21 17:41, Dave Dykstra wrote: Yasha, I'll try to answer as I understand things as an observer. On Mon, May 03, 2

Re: [SL-Users] Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

2021-05-03 Thread Yasha Karant
on the analysis from the Linux Future committee, collaboration with Fermilab and other HEP communities, as well as the WLCG -decide on the path forward End excerpts Yasha Karant On 5/3/21 2:14 PM, Dave Dykstra wrote: Here's a presentation at HEPiX'21 from CERN that's publicly available: https

Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?

2021-04-30 Thread Yasha Karant
Given the use of CentOS 8 stream, I am curious about support and "hardening". Some of the Fermilab and CERN machines are connected to the outside Internet (WAN), including (as I recall) some of the connections between CERN and the various EU, USA, etc., HEP collaborators (although over VPNs

Re: Code bias video, watch it ASAP

2021-04-27 Thread Yasha Karant
You state: If you are just doing it for the money, please go into investing, not into engineering. I fully agree. However, in a monetized or equivalent socio-economic system (e.g., whether it is the neo-liberal USA, nomenklaturist former USSR, or neo-fascist economy of the current PRC),

Re: Code bias video, watch it ASAP

2021-04-27 Thread Yasha Karant
Which is the appropriate forum if not one to which engineers and technologists who develop the technology (often under requirement from profiteers) do subscribe? Most of the fora upon which these matters are discussed are not read by the majority of engineers and technologists. On 4/27/21

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Code bias video, watch it ASAP

2021-04-27 Thread Yasha Karant
s politics. This is a government list. *From:* owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov on behalf of Yasha Karant *Sent:* Tuesday, April 27, 2021 1:18 PM *To:* Mailing list for Scientific Linux users worldwide *Subject:* Re: [EX

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Code bias video, watch it ASAP

2021-04-27 Thread Yasha Karant
For those of us one this list who are ACM members, I quote:

Re: Fwd: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-12 Thread Yasha Karant
USB stick. The ISO will avoid excessive additional downloads if installing more hosts with virtualbox or vmware My 5 Cents Rainer -- On 4/12/21 5:40 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: Perhaps s

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] glibc in FASTBUGS

2021-04-12 Thread Yasha Karant
This is not the topic below, but it is a comparison of volunteer maintained distros to those professionally maintained. My understanding is that Pat is a Fermilab employed professional whose employment duties include what one reads below -- not on a fully volunteer basis. This employed

Re: Fwd: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-12 Thread Yasha Karant
Perhaps someone can refresh my memory: under old EL, was the mirror list statically built into the install package, dynamically loaded if an Internet connection is available, or a mix of these two? I do not recall having to type long strings such as mirror URLs into the "old" installs. For

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-09 Thread Yasha Karant
clone in so far as IBM RH permits this) will also be "best work". Take care. Stay safe. Yasha Karant On 4/9/21 2:56 PM, Jack Aboutboul wrote: Hi All, I'm Jack a member of AlmaLinux's dev team and our community manager. Thanks Lamar for mentioning the release here. I wanted

Re: sudo - was Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-07 Thread Yasha Karant
-- *From:* owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov on behalf of Gilbert E. Detillieux *Sent:* Wednesday, April 7, 2021 9:19 AM *To:* Andrew C Aitchison *Cc:* scientific-linux-users *Subject:* Re: sudo - was Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available. On 2021-04-07 2:11 a.m., Andrew C Aitchison

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-06 Thread Yasha Karant
I support an enduser who had Mint installed by a friend. Installing Ubuntu LTS current "over" Mint and then the full MATE suite fully addressed the specific Mint issues you mentioned below. At one time I had installed SL on that enduser's machine -- however, SL could not support some of the

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-05 Thread Yasha Karant
source, amongst enterprise production distros, to my naive understanding, Ubuntu LTS has better prospects than any IBM RHEL clone. On 4/5/21 7:52 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 4/3/21 2:57 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: Is IBM RH required under the GPL and Linux licenses to release without charge the fully buildable

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-03 Thread Yasha Karant
, Yasha Karant wrote: I have not downloaded (and thus not installed) AL8.  From below: with > unfortunate issues precisely replicing [replicating?] those of RHEL installation > media, such as an absurd number of confusingly distinct software > channels, and no default mirror list on th

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-03 Thread Yasha Karant
I have not downloaded (and thus not installed) AL8. From below: with > unfortunate issues precisely replicing [replicating?] those of RHEL installation > media, such as an absurd number of confusingly distinct software > channels, and no default mirror list on the network bootable media. >

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-03 Thread Yasha Karant
From: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__almalinux.org_=DwID-g=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A=KU_K6Bb6uJskkQm0ARvjm17xkYDdWaB3_FkejuJOG48=0dJ5TofplnmjW7jomirkBqLAnePLrd6g4rgnOAamFZw= As a standalone, completely free

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-06 Thread Yasha Karant
You state: That has nothing to do with Linux and Red Hat. I do not know why you bring it up. End excerpt. I respectfully disagree in so far as the issue concerns the future of whatever Linux (or other environment) that Fermilab/CERN and the "official" collaborations thereof use, and the HEP

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-05 Thread Yasha Karant
do not know why you bring it up. And you did not get it completely right, either. In Physics, we do not have to sign legal NDAs to participate in experiments and projects. It is basically an honor system, and everybody plays by the rules and/or breaks the rules per basic human nature. Books hav

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-05 Thread Yasha Karant
Most HEP (and sometimes other) "academic" collaborations have collaboration agreements for all member institutions (or groups or individuals) that no work done by the collaboration may be published or discussed without permission from the collaboration, typically a set of PIs (often not a

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-05 Thread Yasha Karant
. Your observations on RHEL indicate that except for those who license RHEL for fee with an IBM RH support contract, RHEL is not an viable stable long-term (nor immediate) alternative. On 3/5/21 1:09 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 06:27:07PM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-04 Thread Yasha Karant
Has anyone tried the Institute for Advanced Study Springdale (IAS) EL 8 distro? Is this in fact a complete distro that uses Epel and ElRepo as did SL? Does it install and boot as did SL? Supposedly, Springdale can replace SL, although unlike SL that was "supported" by professional employed

Re: not all ports detected on 7-port Sabrent usb hub

2021-02-12 Thread Yasha Karant
I have experienced similar issues with "no name" hardware, that permits an attempt at what constitutes "real". 1. If there are standards (e.g.,

Re: numfmt issue on SL 7.9; possible bug?

2021-02-11 Thread Yasha Karant
A question: Are there applications that use the affected glibc version and were used for mission-critical (or possibly life endangering) calculations? If so, all of the results of such calculations (including any done at Fermilab, CERN, or HEP for data analysis, detector calibration and

Re: Pondering a switch to Debian

2021-02-05 Thread Yasha Karant
olutions to pressing problems. You obviously do not have a day job that requires your attention and are filling up peoples in boxes with your personal banter. regards, Andrew On 2/5/2021 2:55 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Feb 5, 2021 5:48 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: For the time being --

Re: Pondering a switch to Debian

2021-02-05 Thread Yasha Karant
7), making some important applications no longer deployable at the current production release of the application (as I experienced with TeXstudio). On 2/5/21 2:17 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 2/5/21 3:59 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: I respectfully disagree.  There is *NO* RPM EL that does not originate w

Re: Pondering a switch to Debian

2021-02-05 Thread Yasha Karant
I respectfully disagree. There is *NO* RPM EL that does not originate with a corporate for-profit overlord -- CentOS and Rocky both are ports of the IBM RH source distro (required under GPL and Linux licenses -- if a corporate overload violates the GPL or Linux licenses, I suspect that any

Re: Pondering a switch to Debian

2021-02-04 Thread Yasha Karant
From below: If you like the RH user interface, just get the gnome-session-flashback package. It's a slightly updated gnome-2 environment. End excerpt. Ubuntu has many window management user interfaces. If one likes Gnome 2, also consider MATE that is available and works under LTS (the

Re: converting to RHEL8...

2021-02-04 Thread Yasha Karant
From: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__springdale.math.ias.edu_=DwICaQ=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A=pOM6wQMzgedRsg4HzlewGm9N_84-75QBg_hgYJfrr1w=NcdRyRcfQFX1_79q-H0uCKsdNlYen2foB1NlJWJ0IZo= DVD i386x86_64

Re: Pondering a switch to Debian

2021-02-04 Thread Yasha Karant
Several comments as a long term RedHat production (pre-Fedora) and then EL user -- on laptops, on workstations (including workstations for scientific visualisation), and on compute and storage server "farms". 1. Ubuntu LTS serves essentially the same sector as EL, including SL with some

Re: Pondering a switch to Debian

2021-02-03 Thread Yasha Karant
There are several issues with IBM RHEL clones, ultimately controlled by what is termed the Nazgul below (presumably a reference to the fictional entities:

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-25 Thread Yasha Karant
Without adding too much additional traffic, the ability to go down levels with things such as NFS "off" but otherwise maintain the running image (and other state variable values), one could isolate and possibly identify problems -- without throwing an exception except from any additional

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-25 Thread Yasha Karant
NoFbM=j-TpFtU9McdZJqdDt-EGcxZXiU6sIaF-ekykdkaEZPg= > On 25/01/2021 18:04, Yasha Karant wrote: SystemD as it currently stands is too delicate and too vulnerable to compromise, either within itself or in terms of the processes/subsystems it "controls", despite the large scale deployment

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-25 Thread Yasha Karant
update environment, not SystemD), the consequences will affect more than just the community of SL. On 1/25/21 10:05 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 1/25/21 12:04 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: The question is:  what mechanism?  The reality today for Linux systems as deployed at scale mostly is Sys

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-25 Thread Yasha Karant
Everything stated below is "correct", historically as well as for the immediate for-profit concerns of the vendors (such as IBM RH or Canonical). The issues with both the (old,"deceased", pre-RBOC) ATT or the BSD boot, startup, etc., mechanisms are primarily that these were designed for a

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-24 Thread Yasha Karant
Two items of possible interest on OpenRC, with a relevant excerpt therefrom:

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-24 Thread Yasha Karant
Mark Rousell's commentary is accurate and to the point. As for "better ones" and the lack of competitor systems being "widely adopted" is far more a for-profit business decision than a decision based upon the abstract software engineering and performance merits of the situation. Despite the

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-23 Thread Yasha Karant
n the "hodgepodge" of what seem to many as arbitrary and capricious incantations? These questions are not posed as divisive or derisive, but instead requesting information. On 1/23/21 4:41 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: On 1/22/21 8:20 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: I had not heard the hist

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-23 Thread Yasha Karant
From what I recall of the discussions leading up to SystemD in the general deployment that seems to be the current reality, one reason was to not only use "concurrency" at boot, but to standardise across distros and thus simplify use in "operating systems as a service" in "cloud computing".

Not quite the same arrangement as SL

2021-01-22 Thread Yasha Karant
In response to a query concerning Ubuntu LTS: Neither AskUbuntu nor Ubuntuforums is "monitored by Canonical employed professionals". This is community support. We are volunteers. If you want to talk to Canonical-employed engineers, you must pay for Ubuntu Advantage. End excerpt. Although

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-22 Thread Yasha Karant
on, to me this is not the same as the Tomasulo algorithm and reservation stations that are now commonplace on many general purpose CPU architectures and that met (and meets) a real need. On 1/22/21 5:20 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:01 PM Yasha Karant <

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-22 Thread Yasha Karant
My understanding is that only SuSE, Red Hat, and Ubuntu produce open systems ("free to port" with attribution and removal of copyrighted logo intellectual property) "enterprise" distros -- and all of these in current production release use SystemD, etc., baggage. Was Torvalds behind SystemD,

Re: arstechnica: "CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers"

2021-01-20 Thread Yasha Karant
NB: "We" below refers to the Arstechnica persons. The solution below seems to be at no cost, but will not address a university, CERN, Fermilab, etc., multiple copy deployment as this exceeds the IBM RH "no fee" limit. Presumably there is some mechanism to prevent no fee use of the

Re: RockyEL list archives appear to be behind a paywall

2020-12-31 Thread Yasha Karant
such as Heaviside could not be allowed to join the Faculty, and definitely not the tenure-stream Faculty. My university looks at the bar-code, as it were, not the actual contents. On 12/31/20 4:42 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 2:19 PM Yasha Karant wrote: I fully agree

Re: RockyEL list archives appear to be behind a paywall

2020-12-31 Thread Yasha Karant
tinue to support porting needed drivers and utilities to EL 8, 9, ... , and thus Rocky EL. On 12/31/20 7:21 AM, Jon Pruente wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 11:06 PM Yasha Karant <mailto:ykar...@gmail.com>> wrote: Beef:  Slang.       a complaint.      an argument or dispute.

Re: RockyEL list archives appear to be behind a paywall

2020-12-31 Thread Yasha Karant
AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/31/20 12:05 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: ... It is difficult, but not impossible, to have a distro that does not have computer science and engineering professionals ... doing the implementation that is suitable for "hardened" production use, including converting a

Re: RockyEL list archives appear to be behind a paywall

2020-12-30 Thread Yasha Karant
ct for that matter) is not a complaint, but simply proper engineering. Actual binary executables are constructed through engineering and technology. On 12/30/20 8:08 AM, Jon Pruente wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 6:51 PM Yasha Karant <mailto:ykar...@gmail.com>> wrote: Thus, unl

RockyEL list archives appear to be behind a paywall

2020-12-29 Thread Yasha Karant
Unlock messages prior to December 20th in The Next Generation of High Performance Computing Community To view and search all the messages in your workspace’s history, rather than just the 10,000 most recent, upgrade to one of our paid plans. The above is the message upon reading the current

Ubuntu LTS philosophy

2020-12-25 Thread Yasha Karant
There has been some discussion of the differences between the RPM and DEB philosophies, in particular Ubuntu LTS and RHEL derivatives such as the soon to be defunct SL without clear replacement (hopes for RockyEL that probably will not have the sort of support the HEP community through

Re: Way Off Topic - HEP Network Symphony Orchestra

2020-12-23 Thread Yasha Karant
I replied off-list on this topic, with similar thoughts as to what is stated below. There are numerous issues, particularly with non-professional software applications not designed for "broadcast" use in addition to the physics and implemented technological limitations discussed below. Any

Re: SL compared to Ubuntu LTS major release upgrade

2020-12-22 Thread Yasha Karant
I agree. However, when I examine the log of which packages were replaced (I mean that the files associated with major release N were fully replaced by those of major release N+1 -- however, log and end user configuration were retained, such as the list of users, passwords, etc.), I find that

Re: SL compared to Ubuntu LTS major release upgrade

2020-12-22 Thread Yasha Karant
To the best of my understanding, both Fedora and the coming CentOS are beta (development/testing) environments, not stable production environments, as is non-LTS Ubuntu. I know of many people who use Fedora -- and more than once had bad experiences because of a software defect. This is much

SL compared to Ubuntu LTS major release upgrade

2020-12-20 Thread Yasha Karant
files of various types (e.g., TeXstudio) than does SL, mostly because of SL using an older c/c++ library that also is used by SL ("kernel") and thus not easy (nor safe) to change. Take care. Stay safe. Yasha Karant

Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread Yasha Karant
I do not currently have the time or inclination to address the various points raised in the exchange/commentary, to which I am adding some comments, in sufficient detail. UC CSRG BSD original deployment largely evolved for DEC hardware platforms, such as the PDP-11 (with segmented overlay

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread Yasha Karant
Re: Update from Rocky EL On 12/16/20 9:55 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: ... The question I raised still needs to be addressed:  will Rocky EL be done by paid professionals (as with SL or Springdale Princeton EL) or will it be done by volunteers, some (many) of whom are "amateurs"? I am very

Re: Joint Fermilab/CERN statement on recent CentOS Changes

2020-12-17 Thread Yasha Karant
same sort of information as the current SL users list? Yasha Karant On 12/17/20 8:07 AM, Takashi Ichihara wrote: URL: CentOS 8  Linux@CERN https://linux.web.cern.ch/centos8/ Regrds, Takashi On 2020/12/18 0:17, James F Amundson wrote: CERN and Fermilab acknowledge the recent decision to shift

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread Yasha Karant
el you envision to be "paid" developers. Full time? "Gig"? From where do you envision the pay to come? With proper benefits (not required in those nation-states that have social services and benefits for all)? Take care. Stay safe. Yasha Karant On 12/17/20 8:04 AM

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-16 Thread Yasha Karant
, and a compensated professional staff behind the distro (as observed many times on this SL list). On 12/16/20 6:17 PM, Vinícius Ferrão wrote: Hi Yasha, link seems to be broken. It points to a Google Docs document that’s unavailable. On 16 Dec 2020, at 20:27, Yasha Karant wrote: I do n

Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-16 Thread Yasha Karant
cky EL executables as supplied? Or will the HEP community do internal evaluation and testing before deployment, keeping a working distro separate from the vagaries of what may (NOTE: *MAY*, not will) be an amateur volunteer distro? Take care. Stay safe. Yasha Karant gmk December 16th at 1

tnt file extension 3D viewer application wanted

2020-12-16 Thread Yasha Karant
I have a file with extension .tnt . This is a file that is used by an appropriate viewer to produce a "3d image" on a 2D screen without augmentation (goggles, etc.). Is there either a viewer that can render tnt files, or a converter that will convert a tnt file to a more common 3d image file

Re: Springdale Linux

2020-12-14 Thread Yasha Karant
As I recall, what you state below is similar in sentiment to response/s when I noted the "same" comment concerning Princeton EL in the past. I take it from your response no one in the larger EL community (including HPC/HTC) shares the Princeton "sentiment" and that there is no "basis in

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