On 31/03/17 20:06, Larry Linder wrote:
> We are still using SL 5.10 on a number of workstations.  The users are
> used to using KDE with a lot of desktops - 12 or more.  We switched a
> number of boxes to SL 6.8 and we get a lot of grumbles about desktop.
> We run VMWare and load applications that require Windows there.  We have
> everything from Windows 2000 Server to Windows 10 on system.
>
> Thank you All for an excellent OS.
> Got a number of responses but there were a lot of missing parts we could
> not locate.  Anybody really done it?
>
> If we could only have KDE for SL 6.

The screen on my SL6 32-bit laptop stopped working a few months ago and 
I haven't felt an urgent need to get it going again - but KDE seemed 
fine to me.

http://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/sl/6/x86_64/RPMS.stable/

John P

>
> Thank You
> Larry Linder
> MicroControls LLC
>
> On Fri, 2017-03-31 at 21:12 +0200, Stephan Wiesand wrote:
>> Time for a loud and clear "THANK YOU!" to the (present and former) team members for a full decade of remarkable support for SL5.
>>
>> - Stephan
>>
>> On Mar 31, 2017, at 20:27 , Pat Riehecky wrote:
>>
>>> Scientific Linux 5 has reached its End of Life.
>>>
>>> After March 31 2017 Scientific Linux 5 will not receive further updates and the files will be archived.
>>>
>>> The existing files will be moved into http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/obsolete/ for archival purposes after March 31 2017.
>>>
>>> This will break existing yum repos and kickstarts using the official distribution servers.
>>
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