Re: linux - scientific
Nifty Hat Mitch wrote: Closer to Redhat Enterprise Linux is CentOS. my concern is primarily a stable system. redhat is a preference. If you are developing a product for internal use or sale to the world, work and test with RHEL (redhat) directly where you can. quite a few of my clients are using rhel where they can. due to how some have set up from start with commercial and private software running under oos, it is not possible to get full change over. as for use in what i do, most of it is closed systems and output display is with generic linux. that is, primarily what is used is port i/o. not a bunch of libs to support games, hi res graphics, office progs and such. in a word, 'embedded'. thanks for your reply. -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: linux - scientific
Mike Chambers wrote: https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/ On the right side of the page under the Release Notes section, click on thank you for reply. i did check this page, but did not check links. i will be logging site later today and check further. -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: linux - scientific
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:11:52 -0700, g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Francesco Principe wrote: >> I use scientificlinux also. >> Is a good distribution. > > for scientific work or because it is 'enterprise' and stable? > Scientific Linux is Redhat Enterprise Linux repackaged with modest additions they see as valuable to their projects. Scan their web pages to see the difference.The interesting additions mostly involve scientific computational libraries and also some filesystem stuff that makes sense for a global networked project like Cern Closer to Redhat Enterprise Linux is CentOS. When comparing the two it is hard to find differences beyond the likes of "up2date", copyright icons and logos. Sadly many users of CentOS do not understand the degree to which they are getting a free ride on RH's work. If you are developing a product for internal use or sale to the world, work and test with RHEL (redhat) directly where you can. This gives you a 'tested' environment to recommend for your customers. Since RHEL is not 'free' you may find that budgets limit RHEL to only a percentage of your site. If your project has a long development time frame then Fedora may give you a better view of the future. For example new compiler releases (GCC) will show up on Fedora first. -- Nifty Hat Mitch T o m M i t c h e l l -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: linux - scientific
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 07:11 +, g wrote: > 'poe' is more icing, but not a necessity. i scanned a bunch of pages on site > but did not look into what extra software they supply. a lot of what i will > be using is used in 'fedora electronic lab'. what is available thru scientific > linux will be more icing. https://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/ On the right side of the page under the Release Notes section, click on the notes for the version you are looking at. As you scroll through, they list packages that were added and such and should give you idea of extras packages. -- Mike Chambers Fedora Project - Ambassador, Bug Zapper, Tester, User, etc.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: linux - scientific
Francesco Principe wrote: I use scientificlinux also. Is a good distribution. for scientific work or because it is 'enterprise' and stable? -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: linux - scientific
Michael Hannon wrote: We use Scientific Linux a lot at work. It's a recompiled RHEL, similar to CentOS. We use it mostly for servers and have been happy with it. other than servers, how do you use scientific linux? currently, my desire is to use scientific linux for a workstation. i need a good system that is stable for control system design. It has very good community support via their mailing lists, and the this is what i would expect from a '.gov' and i am looking forward to see how well they follow thru with 'government attitude'. [positive type] Note that Scientific Linux, as with other "enterprise" distributions, other than a good stable system, my only other _need_ of 'package software' is in using gnucash. audio and video are just more 'icing on cake' for me. Scientific Linux will typically be supported for three years or more, while Fedora needs to be updated about once a year. 3 year support is great and advantageous, but i really do not mind doing an upgrade more often. after all, most long term support is almost an upgrade. Another thing to note is that Scientific Linux does not meet the same purity-of-essence standard as Fedora: the distribution contains software that is free and useful but not GPL'ed. 'poe' is more icing, but not a necessity. i scanned a bunch of pages on site but did not look into what extra software they supply. a lot of what i will be using is used in 'fedora electronic lab'. what is available thru scientific linux will be more icing. thanks for you reply. later. -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: linux - scientific
I use scientificlinux also. Is a good distribution. F. 2008/6/22 g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > anyone using scientificlinux and comments about experience? (other than it > is 'enterprise') > > > -- > > tc,hago. > > g > . > > in a free world without fences, who needs gates. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: linux - scientific
We use Scientific Linux a lot at work. It's a recompiled RHEL, similar to CentOS. We use it mostly for servers and have been happy with it. It has very good community support via their mailing lists, and the people that build it (at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and CERN) are very responsive. Note that Scientific Linux, as with other "enterprise" distributions, typically does NOT include bleeding-edge applications. It places where we need those, we use Fedora. The trade-off here is that a given version of Scientific Linux will typically be supported for three years or more, while Fedora needs to be updated about once a year. Another thing to note is that Scientific Linux does not meet the same purity-of-essence standard as Fedora: the distribution contains software that is free and useful but not GPL'ed. The University of Washington pine email client used to be the canonical example of this. I guess that "alpine" has now made that particular package moot, but the principle still applies. -- Mike - Original Message From: g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: For users of Fedora Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 8:20:30 AM Subject: linux - scientific anyone using scientificlinux and comments about experience? (other than it is 'enterprise') -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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g wrote: anyone using scientificlinux and comments about experience? (other than it is 'enterprise') Hi, not scientificlinux, but Rocksclusters, a cluster linux (its a derivate from CentOS). -- JB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
linux - scientific
anyone using scientificlinux and comments about experience? (other than it is 'enterprise') -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
