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Am 05.07.2012 23:22, schrieb Grant Edwards: |
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> On 2012-07-05, Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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>> Linux was used to find the Higgs: |
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>> http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/w2ly6/new_boson_found_by_linux/ |
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>> I am not really surprised, but what does disturb me is that the |
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>> distros used in the effort were mainly "Scientific Linux and Ubuntu." |
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>> Where was Gentoo? |
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>> Somebody had better counsel these scientists to be better able to |
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>> discern the quality of a Linux distro. |
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> I know you're probably being ironic, but... |
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> Scientific Linux is a distro put together by Fermilab, CERN, et alia |
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> for doing the exact type of stuff that they do at CERN. Maybe an |
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> argument could be made for moving SL from a RHEL base to a Gentoo |
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> base, but trying to get them to abandon SL probably isn't going to be |
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> easy. |
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> The target market for Ubuntu just doesn't seem to be very compatible |
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> with the Gentoo, so that's going to be a tough sell also. |
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Yeah, just think about the timeframe for which they support their |
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current distribution: You can keep your SL-6 distributions running until |
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2020 and still get security fixes! Try to do this with Gentoo while |
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keeping binary compatibility! |
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And I guess binary compatibility is rather important when you consider |
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global Grid systems. When every lab and every scientist might have their |
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own set of tools linked against libraries in your distro (often lacking |
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a proper build system), you definitely don't want to tell them to |
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"revdep-rebuild" their cluster... |
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SL and Gentoo are both pretty awesome distros but they don't really have |
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much in common. |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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