Re: [EXTERNE] [ADSM-L] CentOS alternative on TSM V8.x => RockyLinux :+1:

2022-04-12 Thread Bjørn Nachtwey
Hi, I'm running my first servers using RockyLinux 8.5 -- it works well, LinTapes 3.0.59 also without any problems using kernel "4.18.0-348.12.2.el8_5.x86_64". Some packages differ from RHEL8.4 so I could not just copy the list of installed packages. As far as I remember, you'll need to use

Re: [EXTERNE] [ADSM-L] CentOS alternative on TSM V8.x?

2022-04-11 Thread .Maurizio TERUZZI
Hello Zoltan, thanks for the answer... Yes for sure lin_tape drivers is has to be installed on supported kernel, I had a long experience installing them when I worked for IBM, also tried to recompile some free versions. I didn't ear about this distribution but I'll test it... many thanks

Re: [EXTERNE] [ADSM-L] CentOS alternative on TSM V8.x?

2022-04-11 Thread .Maurizio TERUZZI
Hello Luc, thanks for you message :) . I also come form the AIX World and I known how this systems powerful are. Actually I don't have the "privilege" to be on those systems, the covid period require some cost effort to restart the business as before, the question about the OS was about this

Re: [EXTERNE] [ADSM-L] CentOS alternative on TSM V8.x?

2022-04-07 Thread Zoltan Forray
Once we heard CentOS was being retired, we started migrating to Rocky Linux (https://rockylinux.org/) for all Linux servers whose applications/vendors would support it. We have not tried moving the ISP servers to Rocky Linux since our management will not run enterprise applications on an