Re: Connie Sieh, founder of Scientific Linux, retires from Fermilab
Best wishes to Connie! She and the support provided by Fermilab truly changed scientific computing throughout the world. We are all very grateful! On 02/24/2017 03:52 PM, Bonnie King wrote: > 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! > <> signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Connie Sieh, founder of Scientific Linux, retires from Fermilab
All the best, Connie ! and many thanks for years of collaboration ! Jarek On 02/24/2017 10:52 PM, Bonnie King wrote: 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! -- __ --- _ Jaroslaw_Polok ___ CERN - IT/CM/LCS _ _ http://cern.ch/~jpolok tel_+41_22_767_1834 _ __+41_75_411_9487 _
yum update initial setup hang up
I encountered this error twice now. Initial install of 7x via netinst.iso works. Then, I log in remotely to run yum update. Update proceeds but during cleanup, yum hangs. Apparently cleaning up initial-setup. I need some instructions on how to debug this problem. Thanks.
Connie Sieh Retirement
Thank You !! One of the commercial / industrial users. We have been using SL since 4.2 and had great sucess with it. On of my displasures is having to use Windows 10. and then I escape back to SL linux. The thing I miss in 6. 7.2 is the ability to use KDE. Good luck in your retirement. I was retired for one afternoon for 4 hours 20 years ago. Again - Thank You Larry Linder MicroControls LLC
Re: Connie Sieh, founder of Scientific Linux, retires from Fermilab
Farewell Connie! SL has changed the world. A bit. Quite a bit. Things like SL often seem to be "just happening", or be "natural" or "by chance", in hindsight. They aren't. There's always someone behind them actually making them happen. Success is not an accident. Thanks a lot for making SL happen and be the success it is! I'll certainly miss those "truly concise" mails on the lists, and more. But I'm also positive that the now current SL team will keep up the great work. All the best, Stephan On Feb 24, 2017, at 22:52 , Bonnie King wrote: > 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 -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
Re: yum update initial setup hang up
I solved my problem by doing the install "interactively" and updating initial-setup separately. I must have missed something thinking I could do an install, reboot, remote login, and update. On 02/27/2017 11:02 AM, Ken Teh wrote: I encountered this error twice now. Initial install of 7x via netinst.iso works. Then, I log in remotely to run yum update. Update proceeds but during cleanup, yum hangs. Apparently cleaning up initial-setup. I need some instructions on how to debug this problem. Thanks.
What does this SELinux command do?
setsebool -P mmap_low_allowed 1
Re: What does this SELinux command do?
On 02/27/2017 07:29 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > setsebool -P mmap_low_allowed 1 > It allows applications to access the low portions of the kernel memory space. Personally, I can't think of a good reason to allow that. Maybe someone else can? I know I would need a good reason to enable it. ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: What does this SELinux command do?
On 02/27/2017 08:06 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: On 02/27/2017 07:29 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: setsebool -P mmap_low_allowed 1 It allows applications to access the low portions of the kernel memory space. Personally, I can't think of a good reason to allow that. Maybe someone else can? I know I would need a good reason to enable it. ~Stack~ I am thinking "bug" in the program that triggered the warning -- ~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~
