Hello all

On 07/19/2011 11:09 AM, Bernhard Linseisen wrote:
> For an extensive answer you probably should ask the people at CERN IT 
> directly, but so far I can tell you:

Thank you Bernhard for the answer , very nice summary !

I will just add a little:

> About the default RPMs I don't know.

Default set of packages for SLC installation differs from base SL or RH / CentOS:

One of our users requirement is to be able to easily install a
system which provides same package sets and configuration as our
centrally managed interactive computing clusters.

[ this set changes in between major releases and sometimes also
  in between minor ones ]

> 
> If it is suitable outside depends what you mean by "suitable". 
> If "suitable" means "it runs" then I'd say yes. (At least it was like that 
> when I tried SLC5.

I'm sure this is still the case: installation process detects if
a given system is on a CERN network (during firstboot launch) and
then performs (or not) CERN specific configuration adjustements
( AFS / Kerberos / time servers / sendmail / ... etc ...)

> The question is more: Why would you need SLC6 instead of SL6?

I couldn;t agree more: as it was already mentioned CERN provides
SLC support to CERN users (well, of course if resources and time
permits we also respond to outside users, but with lower priority)

[ I guess this is similar in case of FNAL and the SLF used
there or DESY and SLD variants .. ]

Best Regards

Jarek [ CERN Linux Support ]
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