Hi Larry, Thanks for the feedback. Can you please share more details on what you reported and to whom? I doubt that we would shoot the messenger as we are pretty responsive to everyone. If you provide me with more details or a link to something I can try and see first, how we can help you and second, why no one has yet. That is very atypical behavior.
Thanks, Jack On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 1:03 PM Larry Linder < 00000dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > Microsoft has about 15 updates to windows 10 maybe more. It has one > theme good or bad. It is moron aware so it fits a lot of the > population. > > We are still using RHEL 6.5 upgraded to 6.10 so we have the 32 libs for > a lot of our engineering cad packages. > > In the lab is a 7.6 box running that is used for the TI processor stuff. > The main server is SL 6.2 -> SL 6.10. Works well. > > Rocky we have not evaluated yet. > > Our new box is an 8 core processor with 32 G of memory - almalinux is > going to be installed shortly. Mainly to ditch the idiot Gnome desktop. > We have evaluated almalinux 8.4 without a desktop and as a command line > driven device it really works well and is stable. It also has the > RedHat built in flaw. When in the manual-option it will wipe out you > file system completely, including the disk that contains the > install .iso. > > I told the alma developers about it and gave them an example and they > shot the messenger. Just like the kids at Fedora. > Formula on how to kill a linux OS. I mean wipe all the disks attached. > Remove a Software package, change you mind, reinstall it, Remove it and > any disk attached is gone - wiped clean. > > This is why we have not moved forward. Some of our engineers are pretty > inventive and like to change things on their computers. We do not > discourage it. The core file system is the same for back up purposes > but almost anything else is done. > > This puts us in a sort of stop mode for upgrading to a new linux. > > The end of our fooling around is pretty near and the thought is to > migrate to an apple. > The SL relationship served us well. The community was always a great > help, we thank them, but there is not a clear path to the future. We > just can't wait any longer to get developers to fix core issues. This > problem started when IBM rewrote the Linux code in C++ at start of RHEL > 7. This is a guess because things worked perfectly until then. > > If the upstream developers are interested I can give them an example of > how to wipe a linux file system. > > Merry Christmas > Larry Linder > MicroControls LLC >
