Re: Any 7 rumors?

2014-05-16 Thread Ken Teh
Good grief! These guys just cannot leave well enough alone. On the bright side, this will probably extend the end-of-life for RHEL6x. Rpms of updated tools in /usr/local!!! Rant over... On 05/15/2014 07:59 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: There are enough significant layout differences,

Re: Any 7 rumors?

2014-05-16 Thread Jamie Duncan
Did you just copy/paste that from the RHEL 6 GA and change the version numbers? On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Ken Teh t...@anl.gov wrote: Good grief! These guys just cannot leave well enough alone. On the bright side, this will probably extend the end-of-life for RHEL6x. Rpms of

Re: Any 7 rumors?

2014-05-16 Thread Javier Ruiz Aranguren
Isn't it weird that choosing where to install things seems rocket science? (Newbie rants) 2014-05-16 16:53 GMT+02:00 Jamie Duncan jamie.e.dun...@gmail.com: Did you just copy/paste that from the RHEL 6 GA and change the version numbers? On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Ken Teh t...@anl.gov

Re: Any 7 rumors?

2014-05-16 Thread Steven Timm
We have a bunch of new hardware here at Fermilab on which the 2.6.32 series of kernels that come with EL6/SL6 is no longer stable and we are looking for an upstream-supported 3.x kernel. that will hopefully be the big win for us. Steve Timm On Thu, 15 May 2014, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

Re: Any 7 rumors?

2014-05-16 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 15 May 2014, Connie Sieh wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2014, Dag Wieers wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, ToddAndMargo wrote: Any rumors as to when EL 7 will be out? There was an announcement today from Red Hat about a virtual event named Redefining the Enterprise OS at June 10. The content

Re: Any 7 rumors?

2014-05-16 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Dag Wieers d...@wieers.com To: Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV Sent: Friday, 16 May 2014, 17:03 Subject: Re: Any 7 rumors? On Thu, 15 May 2014, Connie Sieh wrote: On Thu, 15 May 2014, Dag Wieers wrote:  

Re: Any 7 rumors?

2014-05-16 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 05/16/2014 09:54 AM, Ian Murray wrote: - Original Message - From: Dag Wieers d...@wieers.com To: Connie Sieh cs...@fnal.gov Cc: SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@LISTSERV.FNAL.GOV Sent: Friday, 16 May 2014, 17:03 Subject: Re: Any 7 rumors? On Thu, 15 May 2014, Connie Sieh wrote: On

/dev/zero and flash drives

2014-05-16 Thread ToddAndMargo
Hi All, On a flash drive, does the following not only ease the drive, but does it also turn off all the charges? dd bs=4096 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc1 Many thanks, -T -- ~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows

Re: /dev/zero and flash drives

2014-05-16 Thread John Lauro
That would only wipe one partition, not the entire drive. If you want to erase the entire drive use /dev/sdc (or whatever device). Also, be aware that unlike hard drives, for flash drives it likely does not erase the drive. Internally the drive might just mark the sectors as all clear and

Re: /dev/zero and flash drives

2014-05-16 Thread ToddAndMargo
- Original Message - From: ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com To: Scientific Linux Users SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS@listserv.fnal.gov Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 12:11:29 AM Subject: /dev/zero and flash drives Hi All, On a flash drive, does the following not only ease the drive, but does

Re: /dev/zero and flash drives

2014-05-16 Thread John Lauro
So zero does not clear the charge? I always smack my old drives with a hammer before tossing them. It depends on the drive. Many probably do.

Re: /dev/zero and flash drives

2014-05-16 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 05/16/2014 09:49 PM, John Lauro wrote: So zero does not clear the charge? I always smack my old drives with a hammer before tossing them. It depends on the drive. Many probably do. Thank you! -- ~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They