Hi, Connie,

ALL the best to you and your family.

wenji

On 2/24/17, 5:55 PM, "[log in to unmask] on behalf of Oleg Sadov" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:

    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