Re: Repo for updateso to an old SL
On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 09:34:57PM +0100, Elio Fabri wrote: > I'm stil using SL 6.2 (waiting for the fog about future SL, CentOS > ... to dissolve). > I'm in need to update firefox. A version for RHEL6 systems exists > (firefox-91.4.1esr) but yum finds no repo for that package. > Some help? Thx That is the true death of SL6. No google-chrome or other modern browser. There is firefox, true, but latest versions of firefox do wierd stuff and basically quickly approach unusable. With firefbox user base does not single digits it's only a question when firefox cannot open common web sites. But as likely as not, your SL6 computer is the size of a raspberry pi, universally available for $100, comes with raspbian/debian linux, no centos linux confusion needs to apply. -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
Re: SL 6.5 User
Hi Larry, Thanks for the feedback. Can you please share more details on what you reported and to whom? I doubt that we would shoot the messenger as we are pretty responsive to everyone. If you provide me with more details or a link to something I can try and see first, how we can help you and second, why no one has yet. That is very atypical behavior. Thanks, Jack On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 1:03 PM Larry Linder < 0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > Microsoft has about 15 updates to windows 10 maybe more. It has one > theme good or bad. It is moron aware so it fits a lot of the > population. > > We are still using RHEL 6.5 upgraded to 6.10 so we have the 32 libs for > a lot of our engineering cad packages. > > In the lab is a 7.6 box running that is used for the TI processor stuff. > The main server is SL 6.2 -> SL 6.10. Works well. > > Rocky we have not evaluated yet. > > Our new box is an 8 core processor with 32 G of memory - almalinux is > going to be installed shortly. Mainly to ditch the idiot Gnome desktop. > We have evaluated almalinux 8.4 without a desktop and as a command line > driven device it really works well and is stable. It also has the > RedHat built in flaw. When in the manual-option it will wipe out you > file system completely, including the disk that contains the > install .iso. > > I told the alma developers about it and gave them an example and they > shot the messenger. Just like the kids at Fedora. > Formula on how to kill a linux OS. I mean wipe all the disks attached. > Remove a Software package, change you mind, reinstall it, Remove it and > any disk attached is gone - wiped clean. > > This is why we have not moved forward. Some of our engineers are pretty > inventive and like to change things on their computers. We do not > discourage it. The core file system is the same for back up purposes > but almost anything else is done. > > This puts us in a sort of stop mode for upgrading to a new linux. > > The end of our fooling around is pretty near and the thought is to > migrate to an apple. > The SL relationship served us well. The community was always a great > help, we thank them, but there is not a clear path to the future. We > just can't wait any longer to get developers to fix core issues. This > problem started when IBM rewrote the Linux code in C++ at start of RHEL > 7. This is a guess because things worked perfectly until then. > > If the upstream developers are interested I can give them an example of > how to wipe a linux file system. > > Merry Christmas > Larry Linder > MicroControls LLC >
