Re: Experience with alternative to EL8

2020-04-07 Thread David Sommerseth
On 06/04/2020 19:56, Brett Viren wrote: > Yasha Karant writes: > >> Zoom > Ignoring the recent news items and that the Zoom client for Ubuntu > hasn't been updated in forever and that the whole thing is > proprietary... And just to give a few of those pointers which gives a bit of overview:

Re: Experience with alternative to EL8

2020-04-07 Thread Brett Viren
Yasha Karant writes: > Thanks for the comments.  Is BNL still part of the HEP > collaborations? Very much so. Many of ideas that became DUNE originated here. We also have a major ATLAS contingent, muon g-2 was conceived and first ran at BNL. BNL has a long history of HEP. >  If so, would

Re: Experience with alternative to EL8

2020-04-06 Thread Yasha Karant
Thanks for the comments.  Is BNL still part of the HEP collaborations?  If so, would you not have access to the internal CERN-Fermilab EL8 "distro", with the internal "support"? The Zoom client in use is NOT from Ubuntu -- it is supplied by the university IT unit, and we are both at the same

Re: Experience with alternative to EL8

2020-04-06 Thread Brett Viren
Yasha Karant writes: > Zoom Ignoring the recent news items and that the Zoom client for Ubuntu hasn't been updated in forever and that the whole thing is proprietary... ...Zoom works fine on Ubuntu 18.04 for me. You might consider to try out Jitsi Meet. It works rather well in the tests I've

Experience with alternative to EL8

2020-04-05 Thread Yasha Karant
As we know, there will be no SL8. There will be an internal CERN-Fermilab CentOS 8 (CF8 for this discussion) distro, presumably limited to use at the two facilities and to the collaborations that are allowed to get the distro under the collaboration contract(s). As I am no longer a member of