Re: [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

2017-06-25 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
The advice is, of course, useless if your Linux host is virtualized and you have no direct way of reviewing the processer of your virtual server. Moreover, turning off hyperthreading on a virtual server can cut its capacity and performance quite profoundly if the individualized virtualization guest

[WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

2017-06-25 Thread Steven Haigh
* Forwarded from the debian-users / debian-devel mailing list] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00308.html * This warning advisory is relevant for users of systems with the Intel processors code-named "Skylake" and "Kaby Lake". These are: the 6th and 7th generation Intel

Re: Cad package move to 6.9

2017-06-25 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jun 2017, Francesco M. Taurino wrote: > >> Hi, if you only require 2d cad, take a look to draftsight, from dassault >> systemes. I don't know if new versions run on so 6.x, but it's basically >> free and worth a try. > > > I t

Re: 7.4

2017-06-25 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 06/24/2017 01:51 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 24/06/17 02:23, Todd Chester wrote: On 06/23/2017 03:04 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: On Saturday, 24 June 2017 3:32:02 AM AEST ToddAndMargo wrote: On 06/23/2017 07:28 AM, Sean A wrote: Are you all referring to RHEL 7.4 Beta? Given recent history

Re: Cad package move to 6.9

2017-06-25 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017, Francesco M. Taurino wrote: Hi, if you only require 2d cad, take a look to draftsight, from dassault systemes. I don't know if new versions run on so 6.x, but it's basically free and worth a try. I tried that; draftsight installs as an .rpm which is nice, but sadly it fail

Re: Cad package move to 6.9

2017-06-25 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On Jun 24, 2017, at 16:45 , Larry Linder wrote: > As usual we are always behind. > > We own a cad package that runs fine on SL 5.11 but will not run on SL > 6.9. When you run it on 6.9 It complains about missing libs. If you do > a "whereis" on the "the missing lib" - it finds it. >> From what I

Re: Cad package move to 6.9

2017-06-25 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Larry Linder wrote: > As usual we are always behind. > > We own a cad package that runs fine on SL 5.11 but will not run on SL > 6.9. When you run it on 6.9 It complains about missing libs. If you do > a "whereis" on the "the missing lib" - it finds it. > >From w