Re: [Beowulf] Your thoughts on the latest RHEL drama?

2023-06-27 Thread John Hearns
Rugged individuaiist? I like that...Me puts on plaid shirt and goes to wrestle with some bears,,, > Maybe it is time for an HPC Linux distro, this is where Good move. I would say a lightweight distro that does not do much nd is rebooted every time a job finishes. Wonder what security types wou

Re: [Beowulf] Your thoughts on the latest RHEL drama?

2023-06-27 Thread Douglas Eadline
A while ago, as a consultant, I managed an HPC cluster. The client was paying for RH licenses every year. (actually more than they were paying me). I asked them once "how often to you call RH with issues?" Their reply, "We don't, we call you because you understand HPC stuff." And of course, fro

Re: [Beowulf] Your thoughts on the latest RHEL drama?

2023-06-27 Thread Chris Samuel
On 26/6/23 11:38, Joe Landman wrote: This was likely aimed at the other folks like Oracle who are making money off of rebuilds and not so much at Alma/Rocky.  Those are collateral damage. From memory (insert sirens, klaxons and other warnings sounds here) Oracle was the target for Red Hat's

Re: [Beowulf] Your thoughts on the latest RHEL drama?

2023-06-27 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:27:23 -0400, you wrote: >By now, most of you should have heard about Red Hat's latest to >eliminate any competition to RHEL. If not, here's some links: I think it is safer to say IBM's efforts. >3. After RH starting contributing funding to GNOME development, the next >ma