Re: Rhel 8

e SysVInit than SystemD. "Better" being both a technical and a > political/social/industrial construct. Mark, please name the better ones. And possibly why have they not been widely adopted? (PS: Lamar, appreciate as always your PostgreSQL contributions and its package management.) -- Serguei Mokhov

arstechnica: "CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers"

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers Thoughts? -- Serguei Mokhov

Re: SL7 with security and bug fixes forever - how much work?

I ended up using devtoolset-6 (and -7 as appropriate) that ships all this stuff such as newer GCC, GLIBC, etc. Me too, I ran the 4.x kernels from elrepo on EL6 and EL7 for newer NVIDIA drivers as well... All scripted as well, e.g. github.com/OpenISS/OpenISS/blob/master/src/scripts/dependencies/el7.sh for CI servers or containers or similar. -- Serguei Mokhov

Re: Who Uses Scientific Linux, and How/Why?

ook forward to move to another distribution. > > > > > > > > >>I'm an independent electronics inventor, heavily dependent > >>on both competent software and competent laboratory science, > >>both for the knowledge I depend on a

Re: SP: proofpoint.com URLs in sl-users messages

oogle.com > URLs in the quoted part of your response. > The Fermilab ProofPoint settings seem to be a bit mysterious. > > > Serguei Mokhov wrote on 7/24/18 1:54 PM: >> >> Certainly a counterproductive decision for Fermilab and the mailing >> list users. Not to me

Re: SP: proofpoint.com URLs in sl-users messages

T Administrator Emeritus > 810 Ventura Rd.| High Energy Physics Group > Champaign, IL 61820 | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. > MailTo: lnel...@illinois.edu | > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__hep.physics.illinois.edu_home_lnelson_&d=DwIDaQ&c=gR

Re: development environment for "lowest common denominator"

al machine code if possible. Qt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software) -- Serguei Mokhov http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~mokhov http://cciff.ca | http://mdreams-stage.com http://marf.sf.net | http://sf.net/projects/marf

Re: Linux Widows Guide

ng > on Linux systems that she exclusively maintains. > "Linux Widow(er)s Guide" seems clunky and harder for > a librarian to catalog, but might actually sell better. > > I imagine there are many "Linux Spouses" on this list > with similar dependents; woul

Re: Book/Paper technical illustrations - inkscape?

m as figure environments. Inkscape is a good portable tool for such things. I used a Makefile for automation and building of my thesis instead of bash scripts to assemble the PDF. -- Serguei Mokhov http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~mokhov http://cciff.ca | http://mdreams-stage.com http://marf.sf.net | http://sf.net/projects/marf

Re: Where is a good place to post my Sl7 wine32 notes?

n also post it on places like GitHub such that later an RPM spec file can be contributed by yourself or others who have cycles to do it, next to the notes. Then the spec/notes can be maintained there and have a more permanent visibility with revision history. Just a thought. -- Serguei Mokhov http:

Re: paraview

rs would be the place I'd look at first). -- Serguei Mokhov http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~mokhov http://marf.sf.net | http://sf.net/projects/marf