Hi Jan,

I think it was more a case of 'chinese whispers' than anything else. I
suspected that you were not using SL4 in abundance as yet. Thanks for the
official CERN line (which is what I was hoping for).

Mark

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Jan Iven wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 09:04 +0100, Maccy wrote:
> > Morning everyone,
> >
> > A colleague mentioned he had heard on the grapevine that CERN were moving
> > to SL on servers only due to there being certain issues with GTK.
>
> Eh. CERN has switched most Linux machines to SL(c)3 (our customized
> version for Krb4/AFS etc..), desktops and servers alike.
>
> There were certain issues with he GNOME default desktop being slow, but
> they applied mostly to Windows+Exceed+funky font server config->Linux
> server. And vte (the GNOME terminal library) still has some issue with
> slow redraws, again most noticeable for remote sessions.
> http://cern.ch/linux/scientific3/docs/gnome-slow.shtml
>
> If you have any details, please let me know.
>
> We haven't certified SL4 for use at CERN yet, but several people seem to
> be happy using it anyway. Me included.
>
> Regards
> jan
>
> > If there are any serious issues I'd like to hear about them - I rolled my
> > first SL4.1 user desktop yesterday and have another ~50 to go :)
>
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