Is Scientfic Linux Still Active as a Distribution?

2020-02-20 Thread Pwillis
Hello, Is Scientific Linux still active? There was another message that alluded to ’SL’ being ‘dead’. Installing this on a diskless node system is not an option if the distribution is no longer supported. Thanks fort any info, Peter

Re: MATE desktop upgrade fail SL7

2020-02-19 Thread Pwillis
Maybe you just need symbolic links to the new libraries. For example: ln -s /mylibrary/location/libplist.so /usr/lib/libplist.so.1 Maybe use the ‘find’ command to get a lists of .so candidates to point to. For example you can see which candidates are connected to others with: find

[RESOLVED] Problematic 'yum' repository paths using --installroot option

2020-02-03 Thread Pwillis
5F64_os_Packages_=DwIFAg=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A=_XPWQWNwUeu0ZFKH219isUWT6M2TPEo7FIuWwhY0wjM=UKg8rHPPmAJWsAUGj3Sw9Xgc2ybKBgIYkQkEmYV6HmU= > > > > Has anyone encountered this issue with yum before? > > Is there a solution? > > I have tried 'yum clean all'and friends. > > Thanks for any help, > > pwillis

Re: EL 8

2020-02-02 Thread Pwillis
Yeah, I know. I make it seem more grave than it is maybe. Having used Linux since 1995-ish I have seen it progress from relative obscurity into the mainstream. In retrospect, it would seem there has been a lot of duplication of effort. I guess maybe that’s just the ‘ecosystem’ of choice.

Re: EL 8

2020-02-02 Thread Pwillis
From my personal, outsider, view the ‘Distribution’ thing is a major bottleneck with the long term stability of Linux. Distributions dilute the focus on maintenence by dividing the available labour resource over a foolish duplication of tasks. This is usually a marketing thing of some kind (ie:

Re: EL 8

2020-02-01 Thread Pwillis
I thought IBM bought Redhat in 2019….(?) > On Feb 1, 2020, at 11:39 AM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > >> On 1. Feb 2020, at 17:12, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> Oracle now owns and can still use the Red Hat trademarks. > > Er, what ?!