For systemd, I learned a lot from this series in fedora Magazine:
https://fedoramagazine.org/systemd-converting-sysvinit-scripts/
Tony
> On Jan 30, 2016, at 20:52, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
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> Is there a transition guide from 4,5,6 distros to 7 distros?
> Something like "if you used to do XXX wit
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 07:52:39PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
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> Is there a transition guide from 4,5,6 distros to 7 distros?
>
My cheat sheet is here - scroll down past the installer bits to the meat
on setting up NIS, NFS, google-chrome, disabling junk services. Only el6 and el7
things shown,
One issue I have found is that GDM and the Gnome desktop seem cranky on
older hardware. For example, at times it would stop displaying the
login prompt. I suspect that it has something to do with 3D support,
which the new Gnome requires. I wound up switching to Lightdm and MATE.
Steve Gaard
Huh, I've found SL7 to be a very good desktop. Maybe I'm more willing to
figure out how to install packages from other repos or from source (I
did this once and am regretting it because now that I've found updates
in EPEL I have to get the old version out of my homedir and
/usr/local/bin ... an
On 31/01/16 20:37, Jose Marques wrote:
>> On 31 Jan 2016, at 04:17, Steven Haigh wrote:
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>> 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
> 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 small academic depa
On 31/01/2016 2:52 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Is there a transition guide from 4,5,6 distros to 7 distros?
> Something like "if you used to do XXX with init, this is
> how to do XXXd with systemd", for all the bits of the distro
> that made large behavioral changes with RHEL7/CENTOS7/SL7 ?
>
> Th
Is there a transition guide from 4,5,6 distros to 7 distros?
Something like "if you used to do XXX with init, this is
how to do XXXd with systemd", for all the bits of the distro
that made large behavioral changes with RHEL7/CENTOS7/SL7 ?
The transition from SL6x to SL7x is challenging for those o
