Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL mirror lists with expanded variables

2016-01-31 Thread Anthony Seward
I’m not having any luck with the SL 7.2 .iso images published on the 26th. When using the Everything .iso and the cdrom install method, the packages log has lines like http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/$slreleasever/$basearch/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] SL6 to SL7 transition guides?

2016-01-31 Thread Jose Marques
> On 31 Jan 2016, at 04:17, Steven Haigh wrote: > > If you're doing desktop stuff, I don't think EL7 has it anymore - may as > well use Fedora. I use Fedora + KDE5 on my laptop and its about as good > as gnome was before the great dumbing down that made Gnome 3. I agree. As a

Re: SL6 to SL7 transition guides?

2016-01-31 Thread Steven Haigh
On 31/01/16 20:37, Jose Marques wrote: >> On 31 Jan 2016, at 04:17, Steven Haigh wrote: >> >> If you're doing desktop stuff, I don't think EL7 has it anymore - may as >> well use Fedora. I use Fedora + KDE5 on my laptop and its about as good >> as gnome was before the great