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Will you please stop trolling here. Thanks.

On Jan 12, 2016, at 21:04 , lejeczek wrote:

> hi,
> after my first post I made a move, I should say a smaller rather, I did migrate a small HA cluster from SL7.1 to Centos7.2.
> Instructions to do that I'm sure everybody can easily look up, just one tiny manual intervention was needed above what is already covered by a doc on Centos website.
> But most importantly nothing broke, all the usual servers, web, mail, other net related services including HA carried on seamlessly.
> Like I said earlier, and everybody knows, a lot, a lot is already shared, differences boil down to maybe a philosophy behind each organization responsible for each snip-off, some organizational and administrative processes, protocols.
> Slight advantage seems that Centos offers, but expected as they are closer to the source in the lifecycle supply chain, is higher revision of some rpm packages, I see I get slightly newer kernel for example, etc.
> 
> If I was to voice my opinion out - and scientific devel & other responsible culprits are listening - then I say: go for it, get together, merge userbase, share devel jobs, duties, etc. Merge/share or even better, tell Redhat we want to use their, shared by all, bug reporting system.
> 
> I've decided, I'll be moving over to Centos, gradually but surely.
> Note, one thing to remember if you did SL -> Centos, afterwards, is yum repos, make sure what you have enabled there.
> 
> cheers
> 
> On 12/01/16 09:48, lejeczek wrote:
>> hi everybody,
>> 
>> I've wondered and got curious, what do you guys, gals think about that move?
>> More importantly do you think it's a step we SL users should also consider?
>> CERN mention there were talks between them, Fermilab - what are Fermilab plans with regards to future releases, with regards to SL in general? (Not much info on the website.)
>> I personally am just about to trial a migration from SL7 to Centos. I'm thinking it's inevitable, am I wrong?
>> 
>> best wishes.
>> 

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