Will you please stop trolling here. Thanks. On Jan 12, 2016, at 21:04 , lejeczek wrote:
> hi, > after my first post I made a move, I should say a smaller rather, I did > migrate a small HA cluster from SL7.1 to Centos7.2. > Instructions to do that I'm sure everybody can easily look up, just one tiny > manual intervention was needed above what is already covered by a doc on > Centos website. > But most importantly nothing broke, all the usual servers, web, mail, other > net related services including HA carried on seamlessly. > Like I said earlier, and everybody knows, a lot, a lot is already shared, > differences boil down to maybe a philosophy behind each organization > responsible for each snip-off, some organizational and administrative > processes, protocols. > Slight advantage seems that Centos offers, but expected as they are closer to > the source in the lifecycle supply chain, is higher revision of some rpm > packages, I see I get slightly newer kernel for example, etc. > > If I was to voice my opinion out - and scientific devel & other responsible > culprits are listening - then I say: go for it, get together, merge userbase, > share devel jobs, duties, etc. Merge/share or even better, tell Redhat we > want to use their, shared by all, bug reporting system. > > I've decided, I'll be moving over to Centos, gradually but surely. > Note, one thing to remember if you did SL -> Centos, afterwards, is yum > repos, make sure what you have enabled there. > > cheers > > On 12/01/16 09:48, lejeczek wrote: >> hi everybody, >> >> I've wondered and got curious, what do you guys, gals think about that move? >> More importantly do you think it's a step we SL users should also consider? >> CERN mention there were talks between them, Fermilab - what are Fermilab >> plans with regards to future releases, with regards to SL in general? (Not >> much info on the website.) >> I personally am just about to trial a migration from SL7 to Centos. I'm >> thinking it's inevitable, am I wrong? >> >> best wishes. >>