Greetings, I've been running on SL7 for about 2 years, having come from CentOS and RHEL background. I manage about 15 SL7 desktops, and a handful of servers. I work with the Air Force Research Laboratory, so even on a DoD research network we are required to run yum-cron to be compliant with the DISA STIG.
If the purpose of this distribution is to provide stable platforms for scientific research how do you marry that with releasing back-ported beta versions of the future release as a security patch? Seriously, what is going on with dropping RHEL 7.4 beta kernel, gnome-3.22, etc. packages into SL7.3 as security updates? All of our desktops with NVIDIA cards are now about as good as boat anchors under the 3.10.0-693 kernel. Sudo segfaults when using it with pam_ssh_agent_auth, luckily pam_pkcs11.so works so at least I can use my CAC to escalate privilege if I am at the console. I'm sure the list could go on, but these are of my immediate concern. Suggestions? If this is the SOP for this Distro, which until this week didn't seem to be the case, I'm left to recommend that we migrate to something more stable like CentOS. Is anyone else feeling the pain? --Sean
