Connie, good luck in new stage of your life! I hope for your help to
further development of Scientific Linux.

Sincerely,
--Oleg

2017-02-25 0:52 GMT+03:00 Bonnie King <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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!
>
> --
> Bonnie King
> Group Leader
> Scientific Linux & Architecture Management
>
> Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
> www.fnal.gov