On 04/12/2013 11:04 AM, Mike Dwiggins wrote: <<>>
One outstanding suggestion that came up in this discussion was Scientific Linux as the "Supported by CERN" could be a powerful selling point. That post had me doing the classic head thump D'Oh! I had forgotten about that release! Female involved in the decision chain has great respect and admiration for the work of CERN and their web page shows no hint of their relation to CentOS! That is a stable platform that I am certain I can get accepted. Boss taking a long weekend so I have plenty of time to work up the presentation.
true, the scientific linux released by cern is a rhel clone, and a good one. please be aware tho, that it is more customized that the scientific linux released by fnal, ie, argon national labs out side of chicago, il. check these links to find out more; https://www.scientificlinux.org/ https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/ http://www.scientificlinux.org/news/ http://fermilinux.fnal.gov/documentation/ http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/docs/ i have been using the fnal release, 1st in list, for about years, just after the release of sl 5.0, and i can say that it has been a very stable and reliable linux. they have regular upgrade releases and security updates that usually follow within 24 hrs of what is released by rhel. i am aware of this because i subscribe to the list from rhsa-announce@xxxxxxxxxx, so i can get a full picture of what is happening. also, they recently extended the eol to 10 yrs. if you do decide to go with the fnal release, i would say that you are making a good choice, and much better than using centos. the support list is very good and there are at least 3 fnal maintainers that are regularly following and replying to the list. the rest of the support repliers are also very much familiar with sl. so, you should have very little trouble correcting any problems you might run into. if you should have any. over the past 6 years of using scientific linux, i have recommend it to many friends and clients, guessing to be well over 50. i had some clients that could not convert because of special software they used in their business. the others were able to move their data into similar linux software. of the friends who i have converted, there are only 2 who went back to oos. one because he had special programs that had no equivalent, other was because he was too lazy to learn a little bit about how to administer his system. he did admit to liking linux, but just did not care to learn a new os. this is all my opinion about linux and scientific linux, but it is based on what i have learned. cromix, a clone of bsd, was my first multi system, so i had little problems picking up on the difference of linux. from what i have read in your post, i doubt that you will have much trouble moving to linux and administering it. as for 'selling it', what has your boss got to worry about if she has you and you fully back up your current os before changing? ;-) much luck to you. -- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. tc. hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
