Re: VMware

2015-10-26 Thread Yasha Karant
On 10/26/2015 12:27 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2015-10-26 20:45 GMT+02:00 Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu <mailto:ykar...@csusb.edu>>: Although the KVM solution discussed here may work, the description of this in operation appears to be a true hypervisor even wh

Re: VMware

2015-10-29 Thread Yasha Karant
on greatly would be appreciated. As for the comment from someone in this email exchange that VirtualBox NAT works from a wnic to the internal 802.3 virtual eth on the virtual machine that supports MS Win 7 -- it does not, hence my query. Yasha Karant On 10/29/2015 09:11 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin

VMware

2015-10-26 Thread Yasha Karant
current VirtualBox for which no one has a viable solution -- hence my interest in VMware Player. Yasha Karant <>

Re: VMware

2015-10-28 Thread Yasha Karant
dened server with external firewall defense) -- but that is a separate subject. Yasha Karant On 10/28/2015 12:54 AM, Francesco M. Taurino wrote: hi yasha, kvm windows 7/8/10 guests can be a bit slow in graphic applications, but quite usable if you need cpu/memory raw power. you can use virtualbox,

Re: VMware

2015-10-30 Thread Yasha Karant
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:

google chrome problem SL 7.1

2015-10-14 Thread Yasha Karant
but has Aw, Snap (and more) displayed and must be killed (the GUI x in the bar does work -- a terminal based kill is not needed). Suggestions? Yasha Karant

Need a viable licensed for free replacement for VirtualBox

2015-10-19 Thread Yasha Karant
interface (in a worst case, a script that can encapsulate all of the text commands to the virtualization system)? Note the host is X86-64, but the guest is IA-32. Any assistance (based on "real world" experience) will be appreciated. Yasha Karant no internet

virtualbox

2015-10-15 Thread Yasha Karant
Using Oracle stock Virtualbox current production on SL 7.1 . Guest is MS Win 7 Pro. When the physical LAN on a SL 7 host is a wired 802.3 connection using a static IP (not DHCP), the standard Virtualbox NAT works. However, when the physical SL 7 LAN is a wireless 802.11 connection using

Attempting to install SL 7 on Dell Precision T1700

2015-10-19 Thread Yasha Karant
Are there BIOS (secure boot, whatever) configurations that must be used other than what came with the MS Windows system? Yasha Karant

Re: Need a viable licensed for free replacement for VirtualBox

2015-10-19 Thread Yasha Karant
On 10/19/2015 02:45 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 10/19/2015 04:53 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: Thank you for the kind reply; however, you seem to be addressing a somewhat different situation. I am not virtualizing servers or anything like that. For this use, I do not need a bare iron hypervisor

seamonkey

2015-10-13 Thread Yasha Karant
. ElRepo and EPEL repositories also are used for applications that are not readily available in the "stock" repo. Yasha Karant

Re: grace (xmgrace) on SL 7 [2]

2015-12-01 Thread 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 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

Re: grace (xmgrace) on SL 7

2015-12-01 Thread Yasha Karant
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 <>

Re: Back to SL

2015-12-31 Thread 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

successful 7.3 update through yumex

2017-01-26 Thread 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 <>

hp-toolbox

2017-02-16 Thread Yasha Karant
on. After that, the HP printer (connected via USB to a SL 7x Linux workstation) again printed. Yasha Karant <>

MacOS X Mac Mail with SL Thunderbird issues

2016-11-10 Thread Yasha Karant
configuration that is more Mac Mail friendly? Yasha Karant

Re: SL 7.2 on a HP Zbook

2016-10-13 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: problem (with Gnome,on non-root logins)

2016-10-13 Thread Yasha Karant
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

SL7 compatible 4G ISP needed

2016-10-13 Thread 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

Sagemath

2017-05-03 Thread 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 <>

yumex failed to update SL7x to current

2017-09-18 Thread Yasha Karant
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 <>

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] yumex failed to update SL7x to current

2017-09-18 Thread 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

Re: davmail

2017-09-28 Thread 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

davmail

2017-09-27 Thread Yasha Karant
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 <>

Re: davmail

2017-09-27 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Brother dcpl2540dw

2017-10-29 Thread Yasha Karant
this application?  If so, any comments?  Is there any GPL, etc., application with similar functionality? Thanks for any information. Yasha Karant

Re: off line upgrade to 7.5 from 7 previous [2]

2018-08-23 Thread 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

off line upgrade to 7.5 from 7 previous [3]

2018-08-24 Thread Yasha Karant
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

off line upgrade to 7.5 from 7 previous

2018-08-21 Thread Yasha Karant
(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

off line upgrade to 7.5 from 7 previous [3] (was Re;)

2018-08-25 Thread 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

Re: off line upgrade to 7.5 from 7 previous

2018-08-22 Thread Yasha Karant
"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

Re: off line upgrade to 7.5 from 7 previous [2]

2018-08-22 Thread 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

Re: parted and mount

2018-09-27 Thread Yasha Karant
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

gaming laptop compatibility

2018-10-15 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: Update via SL 7.5 install USB flash drive

2018-10-17 Thread 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

Re: boot hang

2018-10-28 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: boot hang

2018-10-30 Thread 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

boot hang

2018-10-27 Thread Yasha Karant
d a minimal update using yumex. Yasha Karant

key scancode and result

2018-11-01 Thread Yasha Karant
be used to diagnose and possibly repair this issue? Any help would be appreciated. Yasha Karant

Re: parted and mount ** EXTERNAL **

2018-09-26 Thread Yasha Karant
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

parted and mount

2018-09-26 Thread Yasha Karant
hard drive). Why do parted and mount have this difference? Yasha Karant

Ubuntu LTS philosophy

2020-12-25 Thread Yasha Karant
There has been some discussion of the differences between the RPM and DEB philosophies, in particular Ubuntu LTS and RHEL derivatives such as the soon to be defunct SL without clear replacement (hopes for RockyEL that probably will not have the sort of support the HEP community through

Re: CentOS 8 EOL; CentOS Stream?

2020-12-08 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: CentOS 8 EOL; CentOS Stream?

2020-12-08 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: Dose any of this surprize you.

2020-12-09 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: CentOS 8 EOL; CentOS Stream?

2020-12-09 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: Dose any of this surprize you.

2020-12-09 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread Yasha Karant
el you envision to be "paid" developers. Full time? "Gig"? From where do you envision the pay to come? With proper benefits (not required in those nation-states that have social services and benefits for all)? Take care. Stay safe. Yasha Karant On 12/17/20 8:04 AM

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread Yasha Karant
Re: Update from Rocky EL On 12/16/20 9:55 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: ... The question I raised still needs to be addressed:  will Rocky EL be done by paid professionals (as with SL or Springdale Princeton EL) or will it be done by volunteers, some (many) of whom are "amateurs"? I am very

Re: Joint Fermilab/CERN statement on recent CentOS Changes

2020-12-17 Thread Yasha Karant
same sort of information as the current SL users list? Yasha Karant On 12/17/20 8:07 AM, Takashi Ichihara wrote: URL: CentOS 8  Linux@CERN https://linux.web.cern.ch/centos8/ Regrds, Takashi On 2020/12/18 0:17, James F Amundson wrote: CERN and Fermilab acknowledge the recent decision to shift

Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-17 Thread Yasha Karant
I do not currently have the time or inclination to address the various points raised in the exchange/commentary, to which I am adding some comments, in sufficient detail. UC CSRG BSD original deployment largely evolved for DEC hardware platforms, such as the PDP-11 (with segmented overlay

Re: Sustainable computing - Re: CentOS EOL - politics?

2020-12-12 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: Rocky Linux

2020-12-10 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: Rocky Linux

2020-12-10 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: Way Off Topic - HEP Network Symphony Orchestra

2020-12-23 Thread Yasha Karant
I replied off-list on this topic, with similar thoughts as to what is stated below. There are numerous issues, particularly with non-professional software applications not designed for "broadcast" use in addition to the physics and implemented technological limitations discussed below. Any

Re: SL7 with security and bug fixes forever - how much work?

2020-12-14 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: Springdale Linux

2020-12-14 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: SL7 with security and bug fixes forever - how much work?

2020-12-14 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: Springdale Linux

2020-12-14 Thread Yasha Karant
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

tnt file extension 3D viewer application wanted

2020-12-16 Thread Yasha Karant
I have a file with extension .tnt . This is a file that is used by an appropriate viewer to produce a "3d image" on a 2D screen without augmentation (goggles, etc.). Is there either a viewer that can render tnt files, or a converter that will convert a tnt file to a more common 3d image file

Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-16 Thread Yasha Karant
cky EL executables as supplied? Or will the HEP community do internal evaluation and testing before deployment, keeping a working distro separate from the vagaries of what may (NOTE: *MAY*, not will) be an amateur volunteer distro? Take care. Stay safe. Yasha Karant gmk December 16th at 1

Re: SL compared to Ubuntu LTS major release upgrade

2020-12-22 Thread Yasha Karant
To the best of my understanding, both Fedora and the coming CentOS are beta (development/testing) environments, not stable production environments, as is non-LTS Ubuntu. I know of many people who use Fedora -- and more than once had bad experiences because of a software defect. This is much

Re: SL compared to Ubuntu LTS major release upgrade

2020-12-22 Thread Yasha Karant
I agree. However, when I examine the log of which packages were replaced (I mean that the files associated with major release N were fully replaced by those of major release N+1 -- however, log and end user configuration were retained, such as the list of users, passwords, etc.), I find that

Re: Springdale Linux

2020-12-14 Thread Yasha Karant
As I recall, what you state below is similar in sentiment to response/s when I noted the "same" comment concerning Princeton EL in the past. I take it from your response no one in the larger EL community (including HPC/HTC) shares the Princeton "sentiment" and that there is no "basis in

Re: Springdale Linux

2020-12-14 Thread Yasha Karant
. *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

Re: SL7 with security and bug fixes forever - how much work?

2020-12-13 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: CentOS EOL - politics?

2020-12-11 Thread Yasha Karant
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,

Re: Update from Rocky EL

2020-12-16 Thread Yasha Karant
, and a compensated professional staff behind the distro (as observed many times on this SL list). On 12/16/20 6:17 PM, Vinícius Ferrão wrote: Hi Yasha, link seems to be broken. It points to a Google Docs document that’s unavailable. On 16 Dec 2020, at 20:27, Yasha Karant wrote: I do n

SL compared to Ubuntu LTS major release upgrade

2020-12-20 Thread Yasha Karant
files of various types (e.g., TeXstudio) than does SL, mostly because of SL using an older c/c++ library that also is used by SL ("kernel") and thus not easy (nor safe) to change. Take care. Stay safe. Yasha Karant

Migrations to other linux distro

2020-11-07 Thread Yasha Karant
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

RockyEL list archives appear to be behind a paywall

2020-12-29 Thread Yasha Karant
Unlock messages prior to December 20th in The Next Generation of High Performance Computing Community To view and search all the messages in your workspace’s history, rather than just the 10,000 most recent, upgrade to one of our paid plans. The above is the message upon reading the current

Re: RockyEL list archives appear to be behind a paywall

2020-12-30 Thread Yasha Karant
ct for that matter) is not a complaint, but simply proper engineering. Actual binary executables are constructed through engineering and technology. On 12/30/20 8:08 AM, Jon Pruente wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 6:51 PM Yasha Karant <mailto:ykar...@gmail.com>> wrote: Thus, unl

Re: RockyEL list archives appear to be behind a paywall

2020-12-31 Thread Yasha Karant
such as Heaviside could not be allowed to join the Faculty, and definitely not the tenure-stream Faculty. My university looks at the bar-code, as it were, not the actual contents. On 12/31/20 4:42 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 2:19 PM Yasha Karant wrote: I fully agree

Re: arstechnica: "CentOS is gone—but RHEL is now free for up to 16 production servers"

2021-01-20 Thread Yasha Karant
NB: "We" below refers to the Arstechnica persons. The solution below seems to be at no cost, but will not address a university, CERN, Fermilab, etc., multiple copy deployment as this exceeds the IBM RH "no fee" limit. Presumably there is some mechanism to prevent no fee use of the

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-22 Thread Yasha Karant
My understanding is that only SuSE, Red Hat, and Ubuntu produce open systems ("free to port" with attribution and removal of copyrighted logo intellectual property) "enterprise" distros -- and all of these in current production release use SystemD, etc., baggage. Was Torvalds behind SystemD,

Not quite the same arrangement as SL

2021-01-22 Thread Yasha Karant
In response to a query concerning Ubuntu LTS: Neither AskUbuntu nor Ubuntuforums is "monitored by Canonical employed professionals". This is community support. We are volunteers. If you want to talk to Canonical-employed engineers, you must pay for Ubuntu Advantage. End excerpt. Although

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-22 Thread Yasha Karant
on, to me this is not the same as the Tomasulo algorithm and reservation stations that are now commonplace on many general purpose CPU architectures and that met (and meets) a real need. On 1/22/21 5:20 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:01 PM Yasha Karant <

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-25 Thread Yasha Karant
Everything stated below is "correct", historically as well as for the immediate for-profit concerns of the vendors (such as IBM RH or Canonical). The issues with both the (old,"deceased", pre-RBOC) ATT or the BSD boot, startup, etc., mechanisms are primarily that these were designed for a

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-25 Thread Yasha Karant
update environment, not SystemD), the consequences will affect more than just the community of SL. On 1/25/21 10:05 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 1/25/21 12:04 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: The question is:  what mechanism?  The reality today for Linux systems as deployed at scale mostly is Sys

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-25 Thread Yasha Karant
Without adding too much additional traffic, the ability to go down levels with things such as NFS "off" but otherwise maintain the running image (and other state variable values), one could isolate and possibly identify problems -- without throwing an exception except from any additional

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-25 Thread Yasha Karant
NoFbM=j-TpFtU9McdZJqdDt-EGcxZXiU6sIaF-ekykdkaEZPg= > On 25/01/2021 18:04, Yasha Karant wrote: SystemD as it currently stands is too delicate and too vulnerable to compromise, either within itself or in terms of the processes/subsystems it "controls", despite the large scale deployment

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-23 Thread Yasha Karant
n the "hodgepodge" of what seem to many as arbitrary and capricious incantations? These questions are not posed as divisive or derisive, but instead requesting information. On 1/23/21 4:41 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: On 1/22/21 8:20 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: I had not heard the hist

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-23 Thread Yasha Karant
From what I recall of the discussions leading up to SystemD in the general deployment that seems to be the current reality, one reason was to not only use "concurrency" at boot, but to standardise across distros and thus simplify use in "operating systems as a service" in "cloud computing".

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-24 Thread Yasha Karant
Two items of possible interest on OpenRC, with a relevant excerpt therefrom:

Re: Rhel 8

2021-01-24 Thread Yasha Karant
Mark Rousell's commentary is accurate and to the point. As for "better ones" and the lack of competitor systems being "widely adopted" is far more a for-profit business decision than a decision based upon the abstract software engineering and performance merits of the situation. Despite the

Re: RockyEL list archives appear to be behind a paywall

2020-12-31 Thread Yasha Karant
AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 12/31/20 12:05 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: ... It is difficult, but not impossible, to have a distro that does not have computer science and engineering professionals ... doing the implementation that is suitable for "hardened" production use, including converting a

Re: RockyEL list archives appear to be behind a paywall

2020-12-31 Thread Yasha Karant
tinue to support porting needed drivers and utilities to EL 8, 9, ... , and thus Rocky EL. On 12/31/20 7:21 AM, Jon Pruente wrote: On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 11:06 PM Yasha Karant <mailto:ykar...@gmail.com>> wrote: Beef:  Slang.       a complaint.      an argument or dispute.

Re: Pondering a switch to Debian

2021-02-03 Thread Yasha Karant
There are several issues with IBM RHEL clones, ultimately controlled by what is termed the Nazgul below (presumably a reference to the fictional entities:

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-05 Thread Yasha Karant
source, amongst enterprise production distros, to my naive understanding, Ubuntu LTS has better prospects than any IBM RHEL clone. On 4/5/21 7:52 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On 4/3/21 2:57 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: Is IBM RH required under the GPL and Linux licenses to release without charge the fully buildable

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-06 Thread Yasha Karant
I support an enduser who had Mint installed by a friend. Installing Ubuntu LTS current "over" Mint and then the full MATE suite fully addressed the specific Mint issues you mentioned below. At one time I had installed SL on that enduser's machine -- however, SL could not support some of the

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-03 Thread Yasha Karant
From: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__almalinux.org_=DwID-g=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A=KU_K6Bb6uJskkQm0ARvjm17xkYDdWaB3_FkejuJOG48=0dJ5TofplnmjW7jomirkBqLAnePLrd6g4rgnOAamFZw= As a standalone, completely free

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-03 Thread Yasha Karant
, Yasha Karant wrote: I have not downloaded (and thus not installed) AL8.  From below: with > unfortunate issues precisely replicing [replicating?] those of RHEL installation > media, such as an absurd number of confusingly distinct software > channels, and no default mirror list on th

Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-03 Thread Yasha Karant
I have not downloaded (and thus not installed) AL8. From below: with > unfortunate issues precisely replicing [replicating?] those of RHEL installation > media, such as an absurd number of confusingly distinct software > channels, and no default mirror list on the network bootable media. >

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-04 Thread Yasha Karant
Has anyone tried the Institute for Advanced Study Springdale (IAS) EL 8 distro? Is this in fact a complete distro that uses Epel and ElRepo as did SL? Does it install and boot as did SL? Supposedly, Springdale can replace SL, although unlike SL that was "supported" by professional employed

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-06 Thread Yasha Karant
You state: That has nothing to do with Linux and Red Hat. I do not know why you bring it up. End excerpt. I respectfully disagree in so far as the issue concerns the future of whatever Linux (or other environment) that Fermilab/CERN and the "official" collaborations thereof use, and the HEP

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-05 Thread Yasha Karant
. Your observations on RHEL indicate that except for those who license RHEL for fee with an IBM RH support contract, RHEL is not an viable stable long-term (nor immediate) alternative. On 3/5/21 1:09 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 06:27:07PM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-05 Thread Yasha Karant
Most HEP (and sometimes other) "academic" collaborations have collaboration agreements for all member institutions (or groups or individuals) that no work done by the collaboration may be published or discussed without permission from the collaboration, typically a set of PIs (often not a

Re: scientific.org

2021-03-05 Thread Yasha Karant
do not know why you bring it up. And you did not get it completely right, either. In Physics, we do not have to sign legal NDAs to participate in experiments and projects. It is basically an honor system, and everybody plays by the rules and/or breaks the rules per basic human nature. Books hav

Re: sudo - was Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available.

2021-04-07 Thread Yasha Karant
-- *From:* owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov on behalf of Gilbert E. Detillieux *Sent:* Wednesday, April 7, 2021 9:19 AM *To:* Andrew C Aitchison *Cc:* scientific-linux-users *Subject:* Re: sudo - was Re: FWIW: AlmaLinux now available. On 2021-04-07 2:11 a.m., Andrew C Aitchison

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