Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread Yasha Karant
I do not currently have the time or inclination to address the various points raised in the exchange/commentary, to which I am adding some comments, in sufficient detail. UC CSRG BSD original deployment largely evolved for DEC hardware platforms, such as the PDP-11 (with segmented overlay

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
Rumination time, I jump in. > >Why did monolithic kernel Linux, based primarily upon the > >non-production-environment OS Minix from Tanenbaum used as an > >implemented example for teaching OS at the undergraduate level, > >achieve sector dominance over micro-kernel BSD-derivatives? ... Linux

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On 12/17/20 2:07 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: You present a well-organized commentary; however, I must amplify, and thus take exception, to some of your statements. Thank you for the compliment.  By all means amplify; I always reserve the right to be wrong! First: Linux and Torvalds.  Some might

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread Yasha Karant
eth M. wrote on 12/17/20 10:14 AM: Hear hear! *From:* owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov on behalf of Lamar Owen *Sent:* Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:04 AM *To:* scientific-linux-users *Subject:*

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread Yasha Karant
You present a well-organized commentary; however, I must amplify, and thus take exception, to some of your statements. First: Linux and Torvalds. Some might compare Torvalds to Bill Joy who left a Berkeley PhD program for work in the private sector; Joy had a sound background in what was

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread P. Larry Nelson
ific-linux-users *Subject:* Re: Update from Rocky EL On 12/16/20 9:55 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: ... The question I raised still needs to be addressed:  will Rocky EL be done by paid professionals (as with SL or Springdale Princeton EL) or will it be done by volunteers, some (many) of whom are "am

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread Teh, Kenneth M.
Hear hear! From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov on behalf of Lamar Owen Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 10:04 AM To: scientific-linux-users Subject: Re: Update from Rocky EL On 12/16/20 9:55 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > ... The questio

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread Dave Dykstra
It is also linked now here: https://wiki.rockylinux.org/contributing Dave On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 06:55:15PM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote: > I "subscribed" to the Slack Rocky EL "list" after the information on how-to > subscribe was posted. It is possible that the public link in the URL bar of

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-16 Thread Yasha Karant
I "subscribed" to the Slack Rocky EL "list" after the information on how-to subscribe was posted. It is possible that the public link in the URL bar of Firefox is not the "real" URL. I did provide a full quote of the relevant posting to the Rocky EL list; one needs the URL to verify that I

Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-16 Thread Yasha Karant
I do not know how many on the SL list have subscribed to the quite different Slack list for Rocky EL. Appended below is a very recent post. Note: We have about 70 people in total all working through the following tasks: • Management • Web and branding • Infrastructure • Security and