We did use Debian at Sanger for several years. The main reason for switching away from it (I’m talking about 2008 here) was a desire to have a common OS across desktops and servers. Debian’s extremely purist stance on open source device drivers made it a pain on desktops and laptops, because it just didn’t work with most of the latest hardware as a result. So we used Ubuntu instead, which allowed closed source drivers.
I thought of Ubuntu, at the time, as “Debian with added pragmatism” Tim > On 8 Dec 2020, at 21:50, Jörg Saßmannshausen <sassy-w...@sassy.formativ.net> > wrote: > > Dear all, > > what I never understood is: why are people not using Debian? > > I done some cluster installation (up to 100 or so nodes) with Debian, more or > less out of the box, and I did not have any issue with it. I admit, I might > have missed out something I don't know about, the famous unkown-unkowns, but > by enlarge the clusters were running rock solid with no unusual problem. > I did not use Lustre or GPFS etc. on it, I only played around a bit with > BeeFS > and some GlusterFS in a small scale. > > Just wondering, as people mentioned Ubuntu. > > All the best from a dark London > > Jörg > > Am Dienstag, 8. Dezember 2020, 21:12:02 GMT schrieb Christopher Samuel: >> On 12/8/20 1:06 pm, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote: >>> I wouldn't be surprised if this causes Scientific Linux to come back >>> into existence. >> >> It sounds like Greg K is already talking about CentOS-NG (via the ACM >> SIGHPC syspro Slack): >> >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.linkedin.com_posts_gmkurtzer-5Fcentos-2Dproject-2Dshifts-2Dfocus-2Dto-2Dcent&d=DwIGaQ&c=D7ByGjS34AllFgecYw0iC6Zq7qlm8uclZFI0SqQnqBo&r=gSesY1AbeTURZwExR_OGFZlp9YUzrLWyYpGmwAw4Q50&m=jLfA-668qdAa9HzPD-HBTocn7f-NX1ASGLHzPe9-pDs&s=WBEGOmHjR0oZG9TYnByQgXZhZUgAgNYGw6ENauHRt34&e= >> >> os-stream-activity-6742165208107761664-Ng4C >> >> All the best, >> Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__beowulf.org_cgi-2Dbin_mailman_listinfo_beowulf&d=DwIGaQ&c=D7ByGjS34AllFgecYw0iC6Zq7qlm8uclZFI0SqQnqBo&r=gSesY1AbeTURZwExR_OGFZlp9YUzrLWyYpGmwAw4Q50&m=jLfA-668qdAa9HzPD-HBTocn7f-NX1ASGLHzPe9-pDs&s=sWhmJZWjbMIRK4zSFnuL9kIlUUDTxkBGjmG8M6jKK4w&e= > -- The Wellcome Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
