Re: Mate for CentOS 8

2020-05-21 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 03:45:30PM -0400, Larry Linder wrote: > > We are going to upgrade servers to 6.9 and a workstations to 7.6 and > hold our breath for the next 4 years. > I agree. el6 was probably the best vintage. el7 much suffers from systemd bogosity (starts things in the wrong order

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Mate for CentOS 8

2020-05-21 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 5:50 PM Akemi Yagi wrote: > > On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:56 PM Jose Marques wrote: >> >> > On 21 May 2020, at 20:45, Larry Linder >> > <0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: >> > >> > We are going to upgrade servers to 6.9 and a workstations to 7.6 and

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Mate for CentOS 8

2020-05-21 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:56 PM Jose Marques wrote: > > On 21 May 2020, at 20:45, Larry Linder < > 0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > > > We are going to upgrade servers to 6.9 and a workstations to 7.6 and > > hold our breath for the next 4 years. > > 6.10 and 7.8 are

Re: Mate for CentOS 8

2020-05-21 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Thu, 21 May 2020, Larry Linder wrote: So the world will migrate to a Chinese tablet or telephone and computers for industrial and engineering will disappear. If you look at the slippery slope we will slip back into the dark ages of DOS and Assembly. There will not be enough of market for

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Mate for CentOS 8

2020-05-21 Thread Jose Marques
> On 21 May 2020, at 20:45, Larry Linder > <0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > We are going to upgrade servers to 6.9 and a workstations to 7.6 and > hold our breath for the next 4 years. 6.10 and 7.8 are out. I suspect the 6.* is going to cause real problems from the

Re: Mate for CentOS 8

2020-05-21 Thread Larry Linder
That is precisely why we gave Cent 8 a pass. Nosencical desk top and it inability to run a number of Engineering application. I ran Libre office fine but nothing else. So unless you are a word smith it basically useless. We are going to upgrade servers to 6.9 and a workstations to 7.6 and hold