.
*From:* owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov
on behalf of Yasha
Karant
*Sent:* Monday, December 14, 2020 2:44 PM
*To:* scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov
*Subject:* Re: Springdale Linux
Thank you for quoting from the Princeton material. I had read the
Princeton commentary a while
SAs (along with other architectural differences). Out of
curiosity, how similar are the Apple Mac ARM CPUs to the CPU used in the
Fujitsu Fugaku HPC machine (A64FX 48C 2.2GHz)?
On 12/14/20 12:12 PM, Jon Pruente wrote:
On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 2:07 PM Yasha Karant <mailto:ykar...@gmai
ky Linux is released.
Maarten
On 12/14/20 8:49 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Springdale EL (Princeton in my terminology, just as SL is
Fermilab/CERN) shows the following:
Download
DVD
i386 x86_64
8.3 TBA TBA
That is, there is no repo with an installable EL 8 ISO image. As for
repos, Spri
I fully agree. The security-against-compromise integrity of up-ported
"SL7" using C++n, for some n > n(RHEL 7."latest or last" distro)
requires "professional" re-evaluation, penetration testing, and
monitoring. Will this be done? I too have run into the same issues
with backporting, and for
for the to-be-defunct CentOS 8, CentOS 7 can keep SL 7 patched
for security, albeit not necessarily for new hardware (e.g., backporting
drivers) or supporting new CPU and system I/O architectures.
Yasha Karant
On 12/14/20 3:39 AM, Maarten wrote:
I already converted over my personal systems ove
compensated "Gig
economy" "workers" does not result in stability. Stability requires
compensated permanent professionals (except for those who are
independently "wealthy" and are willing to be permanent "volunteers", an
unlike staff arrangement).
Yasha
I am familiar with Kubernetes that initiated though Google engineering
staff as I recall. For those who are quite unfamiliar with Kubernetes,
a brief overview with references is
I agree with your analysis, save for three comments. Mine also is not a
political comment, merely an analysis of fact.
Overwhelmingly throughout the world, HEP is funded by public funds
(sometimes from totalitarian dictatorships if one can call such
"public"). HEP addresses basic science,
ssional volunteers typically
exacerbate this situation.
On 12/10/20 8:18 PM, ~Stack~ wrote:
On 12/10/20 4:47 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Again, my own needs are such that it is unacceptable to have a
volunteer (and in many cases, amateur) developer/support arrangement
for "mission critical" syst
nacceptable to have a volunteer
(and in many cases, amateur) developer/support arrangement for "mission
critical" systems and applications software.
Yasha Karant
On 12/10/20 8:47 AM, Vinícius Ferrão wrote:
I’ve done this mistake in the past.
The major issue with Debian is its lifec
A note:
On 12/9/20 11:05 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 10:25:36AM -0500, Larry Linder wrote:
Everytime I am forced to use Windows 10 my neurons rebel at the moron
aware SW.
I am sorry you are in the position where you are forced to use Windows,
I feel lucky that I
If my recollection of the history is correct, CentOS and Princeton EL
were separate from SL. CentOS originally was a "volunteer" effort
building from RHEL source, with RH personnel monitoring the CentOS
"lists" because CentOS had a wider range of an installed base on
enthusiast and home user
source (by treaty or the
equivalent?). Very few if any USA universities have the same stable
funding.
Yasha Karant
On 12/9/20 7:25 AM, Larry Linder wrote:
In the early days of Windows 3.0 and OS/2. Windows 3.0 was short lived
because every user knew it was a dog.
OS/2 was pretty nice but ha
I agree with your sentiments, based upon several informal discussions I
have had with CentOS 8 "adopters". "Supported" RHEL 8 seems to be
better -- but are there still issues with EPEL, etc., because of
inappropriate sub-system designations (as with the python example you
provide)? From what
For those who want to be nauseated, here is the essential quote of the post:
The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream, and over the next
year we’ll be shifting focus from CentOS Linux, the rebuild of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to CentOS Stream, which tracks just ahead of a
procedure is to
nonetheless backup all non-distro directories and files to an external
device so that things can be retrieved if something were to go awry.
Take care. Stay safe.
Yasha Karant
On 8/26/20 11:10 PM, Götz Waschk wrote:
Am 27.08.20 um 02:29 schrieb Yasha Karant:
I still am attempting to migrate to Texstudio 3 production current
release. I have found on the Texstudio web site an appimage file for
Texstudio 3.
From:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https
available, relevant URLs (or what to install under yum) would be
appreciated.
Please reply to ykar...@gmail.com
Take care. Stay safe.
Yasha Karant
that
there will be additional missing utilities, dependencies, or revision
levels.
Thanks.
Again, please reply to ykar...@gmail.com
On 8/25/20 6:50 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote:
On 8/25/20 7:48 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Please reply to ykar...@gmail.com
Take care. Stay safe.
I was attempting to migrate from production
. Does any have or is planning to have a Texstudio 3
EL7 RPM (or SNAP package)?
Thanks,
Yasha Karant
[root@localhost Downloads]# yum install ./texstudio-3.0.0-6.1.x86_64.rpm
Loaded plugins: langpacks, nvidia
Repository sl is listed more than once in the configuration
Examining ./texstudio-3.0.0
tion entry from the cache"? Currently, SL 7.8 .
Take care. Stay safe.
Yasha Karant
I have done upgrade in place (no new harddrive unless we needed a larger
capacity drive) on several unix/bsd derivatives. Your file system
comments are very well taken. However, using "stock" Ubuntu LTS for
the OS and file system, is your experience contrary to those of others?
On 5/26/20
this, please reply, preferably off list to
ykar...@gmail.com so that any URLs will not be "modified" by the
security filters at my university.
Take care. Stay safe.
Yasha Karant
On 5/20/20 8:07 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 5/19/20 11:03 PM, Arthur H. Edwards wrote:
I'm running SL7. Is there a kbibtex package? is there a gnuplot-qt
package?
Art Edwards
kbibtex is in EPEL. I'm not aware of a gnuplot-qt package for EL7.
I assume
On 5/18/20 4:54 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 2:13 AM Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 8:18 PM Yasha Karant wrote:
I have found gscan2pdf on the NUX repo, but installing this repo
evidently will add and replace many utilities, etc., that may not be
wise
. Is there any SL 7.8 compatible gscan2pdf that
works?
Take care. Stay safe.
Yasha Karant
plications, or will it "coexist" with the distro gcc?
Stay safe. Take care.
Yasha Karant
From calibre:
Download for Linux
The latest release of calibre is 4.14.0. What's new
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__calibre-2Debook.com_whats-2Dnew=DwIDaQ
RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A=U_9rXUp841lroS3b1I6BqsdWAC2VbH7OW6jZvmufgR4=d0abLQSs1MMvnuo9AY7kbu0yBXuChcPX0YhPW64_DVE= > (EPEL) repository. The EPEL
repository can be added to your system with the following command:
Thanks for any information.
Yasha Karant
ajor" update I just did) it is more convenient
to use yumex.
Stay safe. Take care.
Yasha Karant
On 4/24/20 12:22 PM, Patrick Riehecky wrote:
So long as the upstream source is published, we plan to continue
Scientific Linux updates and new releases.
Pat
On Fri, 2020-04-24 at 12:
about EPEL, ElRepo, etc., updates
as well?
Thank you for any clarification.
Stay safe. Take care.
Yasha Karant
On 4/24/20 10:10 AM, Patrick Riehecky wrote:
On Thu, 2020-04-23 at 23:36 -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
is SL 7.8 the end of SL 7?
The projected end of life for SL7 is June 2024
ot considering going to either CentOS or Oracle EL 8.
As we have a residential DSL Internet connection, the yumex upgrade from
start to successful reboot lasted approximately 5 hours. I had to wait
until there were no Zoom sessions being required.
Stay safe. Take care.
Yasha Karant
On 4/
libvpx codecs? Any
help would be appreciated.
Stay safe. Take care.
Yasha Karant
being that the only EL 8 not from IBM RH is CentOS, Oracle, or
eventually, Princeton.
Does anyone have a SL7 fix for the observed failure below?
Stay safe. Take care.
Yasha Karant
[root@localhost ykarant]# yum install kdenlive
Loaded plugins: langpacks, nvidia
Repository sl is listed more tha
pplication for Linux
would be appreciated; in a worse case, a MS Win one will suffice. We do
not have a Mac OS X machine.
Please do not reply solely to this list and my university email. My
private email -- much more reliable -- is ykar...@gmail.com .
Yasha Karant
of the
driver from the proprietary specifications supplied to Microsoft).
Stay safe -- stay isolated.
Yasha Karant
On 4/6/20 10:56 AM, Brett Viren wrote:
Yasha Karant writes:
Zoom
Ignoring the recent news items and that the Zoom client for Ubuntu
hasn't been updated in forever an
e evident than strictly character
based data.
As an enduser workstation, Ubuntu 18x LTS does seem to work.
To everyone: stay safe, stay well.
Yasha Karant
there is a more appropriate list to which to move this discussion,
advice would be appreciated. However, such a list needs to be for
"professional" use, not "enthusiast end-user" use (who are looking for a
different gaming environment, etc., than MS Win or Mac OS X).
Yasha Ka
tive. There is no internal support at
my campus for academic freedom curiosity-directed disciplinary research,
with some support for some persons to secure external funding. My
funding to do any of this was external, not internal.
Yasha Karant
On 2/21/20 5:49 PM, Mark Rousell wrote:
Andrew
CERN, but not CentOS -- if we cannot pay,
we should not use -- but the realities of much university-based academic
research is that there is no money and we do what we can.
In the simplest terms. I trust IBM to maximize overall
return-on-investment (e.g., profit), and a "free" CentOS that tru
I used the term "dead". SL7 (and earlier?) is still active. By dead, I
did not mean SL 7, I meant SL in general for the future. As I
understand the situation, Fermilab/CERN (and thus the HEP community upon
which many of us are "piggybacking" -- not freeloading if one is paying
taxes to a
thin the
general Linux sphere)?
Yasha Karant
[root@localhost ykarant]# yum downgrade libgpod
Loaded plugins: langpacks, nvidia
Repository sl is listed more than once in the configuration
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package libgpod.x86_64 0:0.8.2-12.el7 will be a
ate failure and s there a workaround?
Or, just move on to EL 8 (I am leaning towards Princeton Springdale 8 if
it becomes available or possibly current Oracle EL 8, or simple leaving
EL and going to Ubuntu LTS)?
I do not like either the current Gnome or KDE desktop environments.
Yasha Karant
CUDA GPUs) as well as desktop
and laptop machines, all presently X86-64 based (this may change for at
least some of the servers).
Any advice would be appreciated.
Yasha Karant
se?
If not, does anyone know the last Calibre that does work with SL7?
Any help would be appreciated.
Yasha Karant
ykar...@gmail.com
, particularly as new hardware configurations emerge (or needed
applications such as VirtualBox or VMWare will require "later" libraries
than what are available for SL 7).
Yasha Karant
On 10/5/19 10:25 AM, Larry Linder wrote:
> After tossing in the towel last Thursday we decided to try the
I7 in a HP Zbook laptop from
several years ago.
Thanks for any information.
Yasha Karant
ks for any information.
Yasha Karant
I found one of the GUI applications -- gpointing-device-settings -- in a
Fedora 17 x86-64 RPM that I downloaded and installed as the output is
displayed below. This application did find the touchpad pointing device
(screenshot of GUI available upon request) but did not find the pointing
y personal (not SL list) email responses.
Any help would be appreciated.
Yasha Karant
that for VLC.
Any suggestions on what to do (e.g., are there one or more configuration
files for running, not building, vlc or whatever that need to be changed?
Yasha Karant
I would appreciate replies to ykar...@gmail.com
patches/updates af some time in the future. Is such a move allowed
under the Linux, GPL, etc., licenses?
Thanks,
Yasha Karant
be used to diagnose
and possibly repair this issue?
Any help would be appreciated.
Yasha Karant
On 10/28/2018 11:07 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 10/28/18 2:24 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
>> On 10/27/2018 07:08 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>> On 10/27/18 10:42 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
>>>> Using yumex, rather than doing a full update to SL 7.5 production, I
On 10/27/2018 07:08 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 10/27/18 10:42 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
>> Using yumex, rather than doing a full update to SL 7.5 production, I
>> attempted to update over the network the kernel, firmware, and libgcc,
>> allowing yumex (essentially yum) to
d a minimal update using yumex.
Yasha Karant
, but otherwise have little meaningful influence
over decisions.
I will attempt to implement what is suggested below without access to
the Kadel-Garcia tool set, but I suspect that the tool set will save me
some time and effort.
Thanks for your patience.
Yasha Karant
On 10/17/2018 08:03 PM
supported, in that Ubuntu keeps closer to the "bleeding edge"
of Linux hardware support.
Thanks for any specific information.
Yasha Karant
Excerpt:
How to buy a gaming laptop
They're cheaper, lighter and more powerful than ever before.
Devindra Hardawar
If your priority is smooth gam
file system formats -- given the current stability and
capabilities of XFS, that is the file system (not partition, etc.,
scheme) that I prefer.
Aside (not SL): Does anyone know: is XFS available for MS Win, Mac OS
X, or Android? If so, is it licensed for free, or is it only through a
proprietary
0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00B 2000GB 2000GB xfs
Note that mount on the system reporting the above has no issue with
mounting a /dev/xyz device not as /dev/xyzN
Yasha Karant
On 09/2
hard drive).
Why do parted and mount have this difference?
Yasha Karant
hen rebooted. It did panic with
the SL 7.5 kernel, but not the SL 7.1 kernel, just no Xwindows.
Thanks again for any assistance.
Yasha Karant
On 08/24/2018 03:54 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 1:41 PM Yasha Karant wrote:
Thanks for that approach. As I can get to USB drives, w
ess is there are one or more yum bookkeeping files that
need modification for a "fresh" yum update to be enabled.
Any further assistance would be appreciated.
Yasha Karant
d drive to a 2 Tbyte
external USB hard drive using dd.
If I cannot get yum to "restart", I will do a full install from the USB
ISO SL 7.5 install image, and then restore /home , /opt, ssh-keys, and
the like from the
image, unless a better approach appears in response.
Yasha Karant
network where I work i not designed for reliable systems
work but rather end-user files (if the network glitches, simply repeat
the download, etc.), is there a mechanism to update from media, say
using the iso install image from a USB thumb drive?
Thanks for any assistance.
Yasha Karant
On
"glitches" during a yumex massive update, would the system again be in
an unbootable state?
Does anyone have a mechanism for SL7.5 to perform an upgrade rather than
a new install booting from the install ISO image file?
Thanks,
Yasha Karant
On 08/21/2018 03:47 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wro
(from the USB
drive), is there a way to get to the old GUI upgrade option that seems
no longer available?
Please reply to ykar...@gmail.com. Any assistance would be appreciated.
Yasha Karant
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__access.redhat.com_documentation_en-2Dus_re
this application? If so, any comments? Is there any
GPL, etc., application with similar functionality?
Thanks for any information.
Yasha Karant
On 09/28/2017 04:25 AM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
On 09/27/2017 09:56 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
On 09/27/2017 09:50 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
On 09/27/2017 06:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
I have been instructed to use davmail by the university IT who
insist that the university use a proprietary
On 09/27/2017 09:50 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
On 09/27/2017 06:33 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
I have been instructed to use davmail by the university IT who insist
that the university use a proprietary Microsoft email service.
Although the service nominally provides IETF SMTP and IMAP compliant
in the tray :
end excerpt that is followed by examples of the various GUI boxes that
one must complete.
Thanks for any assistance.
Yasha Karant
<>
bgdata-devel.x86_64 0:0.17.8-1.el7 libimobiledevice.x86_64
0:1.2.0-1.el7
libplist.x86_64 0:1.12-3.el7 upower.x86_64 0:0.99.4-2.el7
Replaced:
usbmuxd.x86_64 0:1.0.8-11.el7
Complete!
[root@jb344 ykarant]#
On 09/18/2017 09:53 AM, Pat Riehecky wrote:
Please run 'yum downgrade libgpod
the yumex list)? I understand that epel is not part of
the FNAL SL base, but I know that persons with epel knowledge do read
this list. sl-security should be an SL issue; it appears: Obsoleted By:
usbmuxd-1.1.0-1.el7.x86_64 (sl-security)
Not found
Yasha Karant
<>
Sagemath is an open source licensed-for-free alternative to Mathematica,
Maple, and other proprietary applications. Has anyone compiled -- or
found an installation, not source, RPM for -- Sagemath for SL7?
Yasha Karant
<>
on. After that, the HP printer (connected via USB to a SL 7x
Linux workstation) again printed.
Yasha Karant
<>
and burn
these to a DVD, and then have yumex use the DVDs, only going to the
network to get additional RPMs that turn out to be needed?
Yasha Karant
<>
umentation, most of which is
strictly cookbook.
The unit was equipped with a Logitech add-on case/bluetooth keyboard, so
one is not forced to a touchscreen keyboard for most uses.
I am not expecting responses on-list, but any assistance/advice would be
most appreciated.
Yasha Karant
configuration that is more Mac Mail friendly?
Yasha Karant
). I do not want to use a MIFI access point unless a UTP
hardwired 802.3 connection is supported -- I do not want to use 802.11
or Bluetooth to connect to the access point . Any suggestions greatly
would be appreciated. Thus, a USB direct connection into the machine
would be best.
Yasha
than starting from scratch with the current EL 7 installation
DVD). Note that for full functionality, one must install essentially all
of the MATE RPMs otherwise small but convenience-necessa bits are missing.
Yasha Karant
On 10/13/2016 08:41 AM, James M. Pulver wrote:
FWIW whenever I boot Kali
back to what it was before plus the amount of time I spent during the
session.
Does anyone have a fix for this?
Thanks
I am using SL 7.2x on a HP Zbook without this issue. Which model? Mine
is several years old and thus might be different from yours.
Yasha Karant
sufficient to power the laptop. Apologies for the extra traffic.
Yasha Karant
On 09/29/2016 08:45 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
I just updated to the current SL7 security via yumex on both a
workstation (mains only) and a laptop (internal battery, mains adapter)
Kernel 3.10.0-327.36.1.el7.x86_64 -- all
no mains adapter
and 83 percent remaining in the battery for 10 hours 30 minutes -- this
started after the above update. The amount of battery time is very far
off -- it really should be about 2 hours.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a fix/workaround?
Yasha Karant
es current standard production firefox from
"destroying"
/usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so ?
Yasha Karant
) as well as
VirtualBox -- however, she uses Linux Thunderbird (IMAP) for email and
Linux Firefox as her default web browser, not a MS environment or
application.
Yasha Karant
rting" indicator until the application actually appears on the GUI.
How/where does one configure this?
Yasha Karant
<>
de seems
to require is a re-install, at least if something gets "broken" as it
happened in my 7.1 .
Yasha Karant
on the web. Any
suggestions (including aURL for a downloable RPM or set thereof) would
be most appreciated.
Yasha Karant
r
even fully enthusiast, not enterprise production, Linux distros)?
Yasha Karant
On 07/28/2016 02:57 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On 07/28/2016 01:44 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
I was updating an application on my SL7.1 laptop workstation, not
using a terminal screen yum but the GUI interface that automagically
appears after "clicking" on the downloaded RPM in the w
On 07/28/2016 11:33 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
On 28/07/16 18:44, Yasha Karant wrote:
Several observations, questions -- all pertaining to SL 7.2 / mate (if a
KDE, etc., application/interface works under mate, such qualify as
"mate").
Q1 I previously had gpk-application as t
I was updating an application on my SL7.1 laptop workstation, not using
a terminal screen yum but the GUI interface that automagically appears
after "clicking" on the downloaded RPM in the web browser download
window. Unfortunately, the ISP network failed during the update (that
evidently
ts as well as 802.11 support (supported drivers under Linux for
Network Manager, her WLAN application of choice).
Any recommendations or observations would be appreciated.
Yasha Karant
On 06/15/2016 12:32 AM, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Yasha Karant wrote:
WYSIWYG (not LyX that produces LaTeX but internally is not LaTeX)?
Thus far,
I have not found such a WYSIWYG.
EPEL includs Kile
http://kile.sourceforge.net/
(possibly an abbreviation of KDE
site and that installs and
runs fine under SL 7. The only WYSIWYG I have found is BaKoMaTeX that
is licensed for fee (with actual pricing in Euros). Is there any
licensed-for-free LaTeX WYSIWYG (not LyX that produces LaTeX but
internally is not LaTeX)? Thus far, I have not found such a WYSIWYG.
Y
Note also that if the older applications require
specific .so files or utilities (older loader, etc.), these must be
obtained and installed .
Yasha Karant
On 05/12/2016 01:19 PM, John Black wrote:
Is there away to upgrade with yum form SL 6x to SL 7x?
Thank you
John
General Electric corporation has a "cloud" environment called Pedix that
is a derivative of Cloud Foundy and that is obtained via Bosh. Does
anyone have experience with any of these on SL7?
Yasha Karant
Dhivan,
Because of a colleague who insisted that we switch from EL to SuSE, we
licensed SLES and I installed OpenSUSE on my laptop -- but left SL on my
workstation. SUSE never in fact provided us with SLES (although we paid
the license) and OpenSUSE simply was not as reliable as SL. For
On 11/30/2015 01:04 PM, Arthur H. Edwards wrote:
is there a repository with grace (xmgrace) for SL 7?
Thanks,
Art Edwards
Detailed information below as for the build of xmgrace that I have.
ls -la grace.tgz
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2255749 Dec 1 15:19 grace.tgz
bash-4.2$ tar -tvzf grace.tgz
laptop and that is not on right now.
Yasha Karant
On 11/30/2015 01:04 PM, Arthur H. Edwards wrote:
is there a repository with grace (xmgrace) for SL 7?
Thanks,
Art Edwards
<>
Hi Vladimir,
The physical 802.11 WNIC is IP configured by DHCP from the ISP. Does
this require DHCP "trickery" to transfer this information
to the virtual 802.3 NIC under VirtualBox that is supplied to the MS Win
guest?
Yasha Karant
On 10/30/2015 08:27 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
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