Re: Scientific Linux 5 End of Life
On 04/05/2017 05:53 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 03/31/2017 03:06 PM, Larry Linder wrote: We are still using SL 5.10 on a number of workstations. The users are used to using KDE with a lot of desktops - 12 or more. We switched a number of boxes to SL 6.8 and we get a lot of grumbles about desktop. We run VMWare and load applications that require Windows there. We have everything from Windows 2000 Server to Windows 10 on system. If you want KDE 3 on SL6 or SL7, use the Trinity Desktop ( https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ ). This is a currently-maintained KDE 3 fork. I'm using some of the packages in TDE R14 on EL7. Sometimes I wish there was peer rating on mailing lists... +15 useful! Thanks Lamar!
Re: Scientific Linux 5 End of Life
On 03/31/2017 03:06 PM, Larry Linder wrote: We are still using SL 5.10 on a number of workstations. The users are used to using KDE with a lot of desktops - 12 or more. We switched a number of boxes to SL 6.8 and we get a lot of grumbles about desktop. We run VMWare and load applications that require Windows there. We have everything from Windows 2000 Server to Windows 10 on system. If you want KDE 3 on SL6 or SL7, use the Trinity Desktop ( https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ ). This is a currently-maintained KDE 3 fork. I'm using some of the packages in TDE R14 on EL7.
Re: Scientific Linux 5 End of Life
I have been running KDE on my SL6 linux desktop for several years with no problems. I started with SL6.3 and it is now at 6.8. I've just done a number of upgrades of SL5 machines. You can choose to install KDE when you select the desktop environment. (All my machines are 64-bit.) Cheers, Eve On Fri, 31 Mar 2017, John Pilkington wrote: Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:21:21 -0500 From: John Pilkington To: Mailing list for Scientific Linux users worldwide Subject: Re: Scientific Linux 5 End of Life On 31/03/17 20:06, Larry Linder wrote: We are still using SL 5.10 on a number of workstations. The users are used to using KDE with a lot of desktops - 12 or more. We switched a number of boxes to SL 6.8 and we get a lot of grumbles about desktop. We run VMWare and load applications that require Windows there. We have everything from Windows 2000 Server to Windows 10 on system. Thank you All for an excellent OS. Got a number of responses but there were a lot of missing parts we could not locate. Anybody really done it? If we could only have KDE for SL 6. The screen on my SL6 32-bit laptop stopped working a few months ago and I haven't felt an urgent need to get it going again - but KDE seemed fine to me. http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/sl/6/x86_64/RPMS.stable/ John P Thank You Larry Linder MicroControls LLC On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 21:12 +0200, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > Time for a loud and clear "THANK YOU!" to the (present and former) team > members for a full decade of remarkable support for SL5. > > - Stephan > > On Mar 31, 2017, at 20:27 , Pat Riehecky wrote: > > > Scientific Linux 5 has reached its End of Life. > > > > After March 31 2017 Scientific Linux 5 will not receive further > > updates and the files will be archived. > > > > The existing files will be moved into > > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/obsolete/ for archival > > purposes after March 31 2017. > > > > This will break existing yum repos and kickstarts using the official > > distribution servers. > *** Eve Kovacs Argonne National Laboratory, Room L-177, Bldg. 360, HEP 9700 S. Cass Ave. Argonne, IL 60439 USA Phone: (630)-252-6208 Fax: (630)-252-5047 email: kov...@anl.gov ***
Re: Scientific Linux 5 End of Life
On 31/03/17 20:06, Larry Linder wrote: We are still using SL 5.10 on a number of workstations. The users are used to using KDE with a lot of desktops - 12 or more. We switched a number of boxes to SL 6.8 and we get a lot of grumbles about desktop. We run VMWare and load applications that require Windows there. We have everything from Windows 2000 Server to Windows 10 on system. Thank you All for an excellent OS. Got a number of responses but there were a lot of missing parts we could not locate. Anybody really done it? If we could only have KDE for SL 6. The screen on my SL6 32-bit laptop stopped working a few months ago and I haven't felt an urgent need to get it going again - but KDE seemed fine to me. http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/sl/6/x86_64/RPMS.stable/ John P Thank You Larry Linder MicroControls LLC On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 21:12 +0200, Stephan Wiesand wrote: Time for a loud and clear "THANK YOU!" to the (present and former) team members for a full decade of remarkable support for SL5. - Stephan On Mar 31, 2017, at 20:27 , Pat Riehecky wrote: Scientific Linux 5 has reached its End of Life. After March 31 2017 Scientific Linux 5 will not receive further updates and the files will be archived. The existing files will be moved into http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/obsolete/ for archival purposes after March 31 2017. This will break existing yum repos and kickstarts using the official distribution servers.
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Re: Scientific Linux 5 End of Life
We are still using SL 5.10 on a number of workstations. The users are used to using KDE with a lot of desktops - 12 or more. We switched a number of boxes to SL 6.8 and we get a lot of grumbles about desktop. We run VMWare and load applications that require Windows there. We have everything from Windows 2000 Server to Windows 10 on system. Thank you All for an excellent OS. Got a number of responses but there were a lot of missing parts we could not locate. Anybody really done it? If we could only have KDE for SL 6. Thank You Larry Linder MicroControls LLC On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 21:12 +0200, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > Time for a loud and clear "THANK YOU!" to the (present and former) team > members for a full decade of remarkable support for SL5. > > - Stephan > > On Mar 31, 2017, at 20:27 , Pat Riehecky wrote: > > > Scientific Linux 5 has reached its End of Life. > > > > After March 31 2017 Scientific Linux 5 will not receive further updates and > > the files will be archived. > > > > The existing files will be moved into > > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/obsolete/ for archival > > purposes after March 31 2017. > > > > This will break existing yum repos and kickstarts using the official > > distribution servers. >
Re: Scientific Linux 5 End of Life
Time for a loud and clear "THANK YOU!" to the (present and former) team members for a full decade of remarkable support for SL5. - Stephan On Mar 31, 2017, at 20:27 , Pat Riehecky wrote: > Scientific Linux 5 has reached its End of Life. > > After March 31 2017 Scientific Linux 5 will not receive further updates and > the files will be archived. > > The existing files will be moved into > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/obsolete/ for archival > purposes after March 31 2017. > > This will break existing yum repos and kickstarts using the official > distribution servers. -- Stephan Wiesand DESY -DV- Platanenenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
