Thanks to Bonnie and the entire SL team, who have done so much to make 
SL usable in the scientific community.  As a user at another national 
lab, I can assure you that your work helps us with ours every day. 
Thanks and good luck in retirement.

On 2/24/17 4:52 PM, 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!
>


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