how to switch desktops, and window managers

Hi, as a long time user of Scientific Linux I would like to explore using desktops other than Gnome. Am currently running Gnome on SL 6.9. I found that Xfce is already installed on my system; i also did a yum groupinstall of KDE desktop and all went well. In the preferences menu we can chose wh

Is RH ever going to update Thunderbird?

Hi All, We should be on release 52.0.1. Is Red Hat being hard headed again? Freeze all the bugs in place and call it stable? # cat /etc/redhat-release Scientific Linux release 7.3 (Nitrogen) # rpm -qa thunderbird thunderbird-45.8.0-1.el7_3.x86_64 # yum upgrade thunderbird No packages marked f

Re: Weird errors from /etc/cron.daily/logrotate on SL7.3 since Feb 23

Answering my own question, I figured out that the output was due to something in the "psacct" file in /etc/logrotate.d/, and more specifically due to systemctl. (The reason my newer systems didn't give the same output was that the psacct service hadn't been enabled on those systems yet, even t