Re: Who Uses Scientific Linux, and How/Why?

2020-02-25 Thread P. Larry Nelson
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

Re: Who Uses Scientific Linux, and How/Why?

2020-02-25 Thread Brett Viren
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

Re: Who Uses Scientific Linux, and How/Why?

2020-02-25 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 09:15:35AM -0500, Brett Viren wrote: > > 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.

Re: Who Uses Scientific Linux, and How/Why?

2020-02-25 Thread Jon Pruente
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Re: Who Uses Scientific Linux, and How/Why?

2020-02-25 Thread Brett Viren
"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

Re: Who Uses Scientific Linux, and How/Why?

2020-02-25 Thread Winnie Lacesso
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