Brett Viren wrote on 2/25/20 8:15 AM:
"Peter Willis" writes:
Perhaps, if it’s not too much trouble, people on the list might give a short
blurb about
how they use it and why.
Not quite a short blurb, but not too long either.
I am retired now (nearly 4 years) after nearly 50 years in the
Hi Konstantin,
Konstantin Olchanski writes:
> This happened right after the first quad-PentiumPro machines became
> available, with Dell dual-PentiumII/III to follow soon after.
Yes and it's why www.phy.bnl.gov is running on a system that still
caries the (internal) hostname "phyppro1"!
> I
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 09:15:35AM -0500, Brett Viren wrote:
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> You might ask "why is there a HEP monoculture based on Red Hat?". That
> would be an interesting story if someone knows the details. ...
>
> I suspect the actions of a small number of early movers led to RH's
> dominance in HEP.
>
>
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"Peter Willis" writes:
> Perhaps, if it’s not too much trouble, people on the list might give a short
> blurb about
> how they use it and why.
SL (and soon changing to Centos) provides a monoculture in HEP computing
so there is no choice for me but to consider it.
I use Debian-based
Bonjour,
This was posted to SLU in 2012 but didn't get any actual answers. It's
reposted in case anyone can firmly say (or no) that the situation has
changed or is the same. *Is* it true that CentOS still have a period when
they do *not* release security updates for earlier OS dot releases, thus
