Re: Migrations to other linux distro

2020-11-08 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Sat, 7 Nov 2020, Yasha Karant wrote: I have configured the machine with MATE from Ubuntu, and installed all of the utilities I had used on SL plus some that seemingly were not available for SL 7. Naturally, yum, yumex, etc., are replaced by various apt utilities, but the functionalities,

Migrations to other linux distro

2020-11-07 Thread Yasha Karant
With the non-existence of SL8, I (and others) have been investigating alternatives to EL. For the present, I have settled upon Ubuntu LTS, that more or less has the same niche as EL, with the regular non-LTS Ubuntu being similar in niche to Fedora. This posting is not an advertisement for

Re: Other linux

2015-03-26 Thread Andrew Z
Yasha, Did you ask your colleagues why they refuse to upgrade? My experience with suse goes back to the early days of fedora. The reason I looked into going suse - i was fedup with tons of fedora updates that were constantly breaking something. And I could not get updates for rh. With no

Re: Other linux

2015-03-24 Thread Yasha Karant
Thank you very much -- but I have no interest in your price list. When I have installed OpenSUSE 13.2 and, if it is successful and useful, I shall share my observations with any SL list subscribers who may be interested. If we had disposable resources, etc., I would not be facing this

Other linux

2015-03-24 Thread Yasha Karant
I fully realise that this is a SL list (along with the occasional mention of RHEL, CentOS, etc.). I currently am using X86-64 SL 7 on my workstation. Our primary research compute engine is using X86-64 SL 6 with MPI and Nvidia CUDA. A colleague here refuses to allow the migration from SL 6

Re: Other linux

2015-03-24 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
Price list: answers: $10 researched answers: $20 correct answers: $100 actionable answers: $200 K.O. On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 05:06:38PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: I fully realise that this is a SL list (along with the occasional mention of RHEL, CentOS, etc.). I currently am using X86-64 SL

Re: Other linux

2015-03-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 24 March 2015 at 18:06, Yasha Karant ykar...@csusb.edu wrote: I fully realise that this is a SL list (along with the occasional mention of RHEL, CentOS, etc.). I currently am using X86-64 SL 7 on my workstation. Our primary research compute engine is using X86-64 SL 6 with MPI and Nvidia