Hi, I wholeheartedly support such a move. These long threads have no basis in reality. Frankly they have as much purpose as counting the number of angels on the head of a pin. Quite some time ago, as a scientist I stopped at SL 6.9. If need be I have all of my code development tools, and am quite happy.
For my daily needs, I continue to use Windows. Yes, I use Firefox as my browser and Thunderbird for my mail. A long time ago I installed the GNU tools for Windows and that helps a great deal. My editor is still Vi, or VIM for the more modern versions. Some of my colleagues use Emacs and that also works very well under Windows. A command line window is my main interface for all of my work. Am not willing to swing at windmills and need to get on with life. regards, Andrew On 10/25/2021 8:13 PM, Andrew Z wrote: > Yeah, this linux is� a nonsense... just migrate to windows already. And > the bright future is there for you. > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 22:27 Patrick J. LoPresti <lopre...@gmail.com > <mailto:lopre...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 5:45 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com > <mailto:nka...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > It's getting harder. > > Singularity containers for CentOS 8 (and latest Ubuntu etc.) work > fine on SL7, for now. Of course this is not a long-term solution, > since "kernel too old" will surely crop up eventually. > > This is an awful decision by CERN/Fermilab. Red Hat has a financial > incentive to keep CentOS Stream unsuitable for production use. And > even if they are not passively (or actively) crippling it, what > third-party software is going to offer support for "CentOS Stream"? > The whole thing is almost laughable. > > The right decision is to restart Scientific Linux. Obviously that is > not going to happen, which leaves organizations like mine in a bind. > I am not sure what we will do, but CentOS Stream is definitely not it. > > �- Pat >
