Connie, good luck in new stage of your life! I hope for your help to further development of Scientific Linux.
Sincerely, --Oleg 2017-02-25 0:52 GMT+03:00 Bonnie King <bonn...@fnal.gov>: > Friends, > > The Scientific Linux team is at once happy and sad to announce Connie Sieh's > retirement after 23 years. Today is her last full-time day at Fermilab. > > Connie Sieh founded the Fermi Linux and Scientific Linux projects and has > worked on them continuously. She has sometimes preferred to toil behind the > scenes and leave public announcements to others, but has always been a > driving force behind the projects. > > The Scientific Linux story started in the late 1990s when Connie's group > explored using commodity PC hardware and Linux as an alternative to > commercial servers with proprietary UNIX operating systems. From the > distributions available at the time, Red Hat Linux was chosen. > > In 1998, Connie announced Fermi Linux at HEPiX, a semi-annual meeting of > High Energy Physics IT staff. Fermi Linux was a customized and re-branded > version of Red Hat Linux with some tweaks for integration with the Fermilab > environment. It also introduced an installer modification called Workgroups, > a framework to customize package sets for use at different sites and for > different purposes. The Workgroups concept lives on today in the form of > Contexts for SL7. > > In October 2003 TUV changed their product model and introduced Red Hat > Enterprise Linux. Enterprise Linux was no longer freely distributed in > binary form, but sources remained available. > > Connie and her colleagues started building from these sources, creating one > of the first Enterprise Linux rebuilds. A preview, dubbed HEPL, was > presented at spring HEPiX 2004. In May 2004, the rebuild was released as > Scientific Linux. The name was chosen to reflect the goals and user base of > the product. > > Our colleagues at CERN collaborated, customizing and using Scientific Linux > as Scientific Linux CERN (SLC). SL became a standard OS for Scientific > Computing in High Energy Physics at Fermilab, CERN and beyond. > > SL is freely available to the general public, and is a popular Enterprise > Linux rebuild. As a result, it has built a community outside of Fermilab and > HEP. > > With gratitude, the Scientific Linux team would like to recognize Connie's > many years of service and her immense contribution to the project she > founded. > > Connie's outstanding technical and non-technical judgement are the > foundation of Scientific Linux. Her legacy will continue to inform the way > we run SL and we hope she'll remain as a collaborator. > > All the best to Connie in her well-earned retirement. She will be dearly > missed! > > -- > Bonnie King > Group Leader > Scientific Linux & Architecture Management > > Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory > www.fnal.gov