On 2019-09-24 17:06, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
Le 24/09/2019 à 23:09, Frank Cox a écrit :
Perhaps now that more people have their hands on Centos 8 and can
work with it the folks who know what they're doing for getting
desktops running on EL8 (and I'm definitely not one of them) will be
able to make further progress.
For what it's worth, I've been using CentOS on servers and desktops for
years, since 4.x. Even published a book in France about CentOS on the
desktop, based on 5.3, which sold 3.000 copies.
Last december I decided to part ways with CentOS on the desktop. It's
still running on all my servers (and those of my clients). Right now I'm
figuring out CentOS 8.0 on a sandbox server, taking notes and reading
the RHEL 8 documentation.
I moved servers from CentOS to FreeBSD... but workstations and number
crunchers are all CentOS
But on the desktop, I've switched to OpenSUSE
I tried SUSE around ver 7. Memory leak in code run as unpiveleged user
was consistently crashing stock SUSE installation. Whereas downloaded
and build kernel from kernel.org (with all default options) on the same
SAUSE box successfully killed offender with OOM killer, and was standing
like a rock. I never came back to SUSE. Incidentally, I consider it
counter productive what SUSE does about configuration: keeps all
configuration in a single yast file; you change one component, yast
touches all actual configuration files... counter productive, will take
you a lot of effort to figure what changed on a given day if something
went wrong after that day. Couldn't figure one funny thing too: why
Germans would use English abbreviation Yet Another System Tool for yast ;-)
Valeri
Leap, and I'm a happy
camper now. I can highly recommend it. Sports every major and minor
desktop environment under the sun, and it's a nice blend of semi-rolling
releases based on a rock-solid SLES base.
Cheers,
Niki
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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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