Re: Other linux

2015-03-24 Thread Yasha Karant
Thank you very much -- but I have no interest in your price list. When I have installed OpenSUSE 13.2 and, if it is successful and useful, I shall share my observations with any SL list subscribers who may be interested. If we had disposable resources, etc., I would not be facing this

Other linux

2015-03-24 Thread Yasha Karant
I fully realise that this is a SL list (along with the occasional mention of RHEL, CentOS, etc.). I currently am using X86-64 SL 7 on my workstation. Our primary research compute engine is using X86-64 SL 6 with MPI and Nvidia CUDA. A colleague here refuses to allow the migration from SL 6

Re: Other linux

2015-03-24 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
Price list: answers: $10 researched answers: $20 correct answers: $100 actionable answers: $200 K.O. On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 05:06:38PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: I fully realise that this is a SL list (along with the occasional mention of RHEL, CentOS, etc.). I currently am using X86-64 SL

Re: Other linux

2015-03-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 24 March 2015 at 18:06, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: I fully realise that this is a SL list (along with the occasional mention of RHEL, CentOS, etc.). I currently am using X86-64 SL 7 on my workstation. Our primary research compute engine is using X86-64 SL 6 with MPI and Nvidia

Re: major release upgrade in place

2015-03-24 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 03/18/2015 09:47 PM, Phil Wyett wrote: On Wed, 2015-03-18 at 20:27 -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: I have been told that SUSE Enterprise Linux (SLES) supports, without problems or issues, an upgrade in place to migrate from major release N to N+1 without reformatting those parts of the disk /

Re: SL7x and the 'epel' repo

2015-03-24 Thread Orion Poplawski
On 03/19/2015 03:34 AM, John Pilkington wrote: I had been under the impression that it was likely to be safe to use 'epel' packages, so, wishing to provide feedback, I installed a new version of qtwebkit from epel-testing. No hint of problems during installation, but programs using it failed.