[Beowulf] [External] RIP CentOS 8

[Bill Abbott]

I still haven't forgiven them for what they did to Sun.

Bill

On 12/10/20 2:44 PM, Jon Tegner wrote:
> 
> On 12/10/20 10:55 AM, Jon Tegner wrote:
>>
>> What about
>>
>> https://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/
>>
>> Regards,
>> /jon
>>
>>
> Possibly a good option - if I didn't trust Oracle even less than IBM.  I 
> wonder if ElRepo will work that the Oracle distro? RH has removed a lot 
> of hardware support lately and for some older machines ElRepo drivers 
> are needed to even install.
> 
> That link has a script for converting from CentOS 6 or 7 to Oracle's 
> version.  But not 8, which is ironic in this context.
> 
> Is there a CentOS forums equivalent for this distro somewhere in "Oracle 
> Communities" or elsewhere?
> 
> (Please forward this reply to the list.  For some reason this week while 
> I am able to receive mail from beowulf.org it is not accepting my emails.)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> David Mathog
> mathog at caltech.edu
> Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech
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