Hi, Larry, thank you for the wonderful overview of things on
the industrial side.
On the experimental physics side, things are very similar, except
that our typical experiment life time is only 3-5-10 years and people
turn-over drives software turn-over. New people want new c++,
new python, etc.
So a couple things,
One, it's trivial to use a different DE from EPEL, so we replace GNOME with
XFCE4, but you probably can find a DE you like? Two, why pay for VMWare
Workstation when libvirt + KVM or VirtualBox are free?
--
James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University
In the commercial world we have to support our customers for 20 + years.
If you want to stay in business. Machines are typically run to wear
out.
We install VMWare and load the OS's we need under it. Dos to windows 10
and several Linux systems. The only thing we use of the host OS is the
file
Hi,
Thank you for the note. As a long time user of Scientific Linux, I
have continued to use SL 6.10; as of my latest update. I really do not
want to deal with systemd, Gnome3, and many such things. Have used Unix
and Linux for more years than many on this list have been able to spell
Unix.
