Thank you Connie for all the years of effort creating what we all enjoy today.

I hope your retirement is a time of enjoyment and and comfort.

{^_^}   Joanne Dow

On 2017-02-24 13:52, Bonnie King wrote:
> Friends,
>
> The Scientific Linux team is at once happy and sad to announce Connie Sieh's
> retirement after 23 years. Today is her last full-time day at Fermilab.
>
> Connie Sieh founded the Fermi Linux and Scientific Linux projects and has worked
> on them continuously. She has sometimes preferred to toil behind the scenes and
> leave public announcements to others, but has always been a driving force behind
> the projects.
>
> The Scientific Linux story started in the late 1990s when Connie's group
> explored using commodity PC hardware and Linux as an alternative to commercial
> servers with proprietary UNIX operating systems. From the distributions
> available at the time, Red Hat Linux was chosen.
>
> In 1998, Connie announced Fermi Linux at HEPiX, a semi-annual meeting of High
> Energy Physics IT staff. Fermi Linux was a customized and re-branded version of
> Red Hat Linux with some tweaks for integration with the Fermilab environment. It
> also introduced an installer modification called Workgroups, a framework to
> customize package sets for use at different sites and for different purposes.
> The Workgroups concept lives on today in the form of Contexts for SL7.
>
> In October 2003 TUV changed their product model and introduced Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux. Enterprise Linux was no longer freely distributed in binary
> form, but sources remained available.
>
> Connie and her colleagues started building from these sources, creating one of
> the first Enterprise Linux rebuilds. A preview, dubbed HEPL, was presented at
> spring HEPiX 2004. In May 2004, the rebuild was released as Scientific Linux.
> The name was chosen to reflect the goals and user base of the product.
>
> Our colleagues at CERN collaborated, customizing and using Scientific Linux as
> Scientific Linux CERN (SLC). SL became a standard OS for Scientific Computing in
> High Energy Physics at Fermilab, CERN and beyond.
>
> SL is freely available to the general public, and is a popular Enterprise Linux
> rebuild. As a result, it has built a community outside of Fermilab and HEP.
>
> With gratitude, the Scientific Linux team would like to recognize Connie's many
> years of service and her immense contribution to the project she founded.
>
> Connie's outstanding technical and non-technical judgement are the foundation of
> Scientific Linux. Her legacy will continue to inform the way we run SL and we
> hope she'll remain as a collaborator.
>
> All the best to Connie in her well-earned retirement. She will be dearly missed!
>