Yup. FAI was a very nice tool for automating large sale Debian and Ubuntu
installs. Much better (in my personal experience) than trying to use something
like Satellite.
Tim
On 8 Dec 2020, at 21:57, Joe Landman
<joe.land...@gmail.com<mailto:joe.land...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I've built clusters with many of these: Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, SUSE,
etc. I got the least pain using Debian, while SUSE was the hardest, though
RHEL was right behind it.
On 12/8/20 4:55 PM, Tim Cutts wrote:
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><mailto: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=
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All the best,
Chris
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