Linonut wrote:



How many different versions of that Linux junk is out there? How many
versions of that chicken-**** crap will there be?

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____/ Linonut on Wednesday 09 July 2008 07:21 : \____

> https://www.scientificlinux.org/
>
> SL is a Linux release put together by Fermilab, CERN, and various
> other labs and universities around the world. Its primary purpose is
> to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install
> base for the various experimenters.
>
> The base SL distribution is basically Enterprise Linux, recompiled
> from source.
>
> Our main goal for the base distribution is to have everything
> compatible with Enterprise, with only a few minor additions or
> changes. An example of of items that were added are Pine, and
> OpenAFS.
>
> That's RedHat Enterprise Linux, I believe. The GPL allows Fermilab et
> al. to rebuild it from source and distributed.

Instead of installing 'vanilla' RHEL on their PCs they just customise the
sources (making it free, no subscription needed), install whatever they need
in CERN/Fermi and built easily downloaded/installable CDs. That's the beauty
of it. Custom-made images for all, depending on needs (because a person's kid
doesn't require what CERN does). Compare that to the Microsoft approach:
minesweepa' for all!

Since everything is package-based, there's no fragmentation at all. In fact,
Red Hat will receive a lot of valuable feedback and bug reports from CERN and
Fermi, including those who build the CD within days/weeks of the release of
latest RHEL.

Microsoft not only wants to /COPY/ this distribution model; it even patented it
recently (the nerve).

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* The Black Mumba peremptorily fired off this memo:

> Linonut wrote:
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> How many different versions of that Linux junk is out there? How many
> versions of that chicken-**** crap will there be?

Why don't you ask the scientoids at Fermilab?

I'm sure they'd be happy to have you tour the cyclotron.

While it is in operation.

Bet you'd come out a nice pessary-pink.

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A: Two, one to hold the giraffe, and the other to fill the bathtub
with brightly colored machine tools.
[Surrealist jokes just aren't my cup of fur. Ed.]

Linonut wrote:
> * The Black Mumba peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> Linonut wrote:
>>
>>
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>> How many different versions of that Linux junk is out there? How many
>> versions of that chicken-**** crap will there be?
>
> Why don't you ask the scientoids at Fermilab?
>
> I'm sure they'd be happy to have you tour the cyclotron.
>
> While it is in operation.
>
> Bet you'd come out a nice pessary-pink.