Re: Need to add ftp to SL 6 machine

2021-11-03 Thread Vinícius Ferrão
You can mount the ISO and point the repos to Packages dir. Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Nov 2021, at 17:52, Larry Linder > <0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > This is out of date but due to what is running on box we need to add ftp > and yum will not work because it is

Re: Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution

2021-10-26 Thread Vinícius Ferrão
I already moved to Oracle Linux. It’s a clone too, has Oracle backing it and it’s fast to push updates from RHEL. Also they have UEK and Oracle RDMA Release, which is useful in HPC environments. Perhaps in the future we may move to Alma or Rocky. But for now we’re using Oracle Linux. Stream is

Re: Pondering a switch to Debian

2021-02-03 Thread Vinícius Ferrão
I will not move to Debian. RHEL clones have 10 years of lifecycle, AlmaLinux just dropped it’s beta today. So there’s no reason to move to Debian or Ubuntu. > On 3 Feb 2021, at 21:52, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > Having been burned by IBM before, and with no guarantee > that "Long-term Redhat

Re: Rocky Linux

2020-12-10 Thread Vinícius Ferrão
. That’s how things work in our environment. I think the vast majority of people here works on Academia or with science/research/etc. And finally I don’t want to adapt everything to Debian. The FHS is different, scripts will break, etc. Best regards, Vinícius Ferrão Sent from my iPhone > On

Re: Rocky Linux

2020-12-10 Thread Vinícius Ferrão
to note is the point regarding duplicating efforts that I agree. Perhaps with this move from Red Hat people should join forces and not create multiple RHEL clones just like we have in the past. Best regards, Vinícius Ferrão Sent from my iPhone > On 10 Dec 2020, at 11:40, James M. Pulver wr