CentOS - Nov 2009 - CERN using RHEL/CentOS?

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Hi list,

I just did my daily news scan and saw some screenshots that illustrate
the press release [0] announcing the first collisions at the LHC. Those
screenshots show windows and buttons that exactly match my CentOS GNOME
Desktop [1]. AFAIK, SuSE/Novell has different skins, as has
(Open)Solaris and AIX, for instance.

So, has there anybody more information on this? Would make a nice
success story for CentOS!

Best,

Timo

[0] --
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2009/PR17.09E.html

[1] --
http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2009/Images/CMS.png

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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Timo Schoeler
<timo.schoeler at riscworks.net> wrote:
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> Hi list,
>
> I just did my daily news scan and saw some screenshots that illustrate
> the press release [0] announcing the first collisions at the LHC. Those
> screenshots show windows and buttons that exactly match my CentOS GNOME
> Desktop [1]. AFAIK, SuSE/Novell has different skins, as has
> (Open)Solaris and AIX, for instance.
>
> So, has there anybody more information on this? Would make a nice
> success story for CentOS!
Probably Scientific Linux: http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/

-- 
Eduardo Grosclaude
Universidad Nacional del Comahue
Neuquen, Argentina

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thus Eduardo Grosclaude spake:
| On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Timo Schoeler
| <timo.schoeler at riscworks.net> wrote:
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|> Hi list,
|>
|> I just did my daily news scan and saw some screenshots that illustrate
|> the press release [0] announcing the first collisions at the LHC. Those
|> screenshots show windows and buttons that exactly match my CentOS GNOME
|> Desktop [1]. AFAIK, SuSE/Novell has different skins, as has
|> (Open)Solaris and AIX, for instance.
|>
|> So, has there anybody more information on this? Would make a nice
|> success story for CentOS!
|
| Probably Scientific Linux: http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/

*facepalm* Of course! Need more coffee...

Cheers!

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On 11/24/2009 09:10 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
>> I just did my daily news scan and saw some screenshots that illustrate
>> the press release [0] announcing the first collisions at the LHC.
> Probably Scientific Linux: http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/
There is reasonable info off the grapevine that no, they dont use 
scilinux everywhere - and there are large number of CentOS installs at cern.

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thus Karanbir Singh spake:
| On 11/24/2009 09:10 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
|>> I just did my daily news scan and saw some screenshots that illustrate
|>> the press release [0] announcing the first collisions at the LHC.
|> Probably Scientific Linux: http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/
|
| There is reasonable info off the grapevine that no, they dont use
| scilinux everywhere - and there are large number of CentOS installs at
cern.

After some searching on the web, I found out that the skin is exactly
the same:

http://www.seoexpertconsultants.com/index.php?linux&release=Scientific%205.1

So no way to decide from screenshots what they run...

Timo

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On 11/24/2009 10:19 AM, Timo Schoeler wrote:
>
http://www.seoexpertconsultants.com/index.php?linux&release=Scientific%205.1
>
> So no way to decide from screenshots what they run...
We can always ask :) atleast some of their admin people are on this list 
as well!

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I was under the impression that CERN uses Scientific Linux, with some
local additions, not CentOS.  SL is another RedHat rebuild.

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  Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.)
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  Hampton, Virginia  23681-0001
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Hey

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Brent L. Bates <blbates at vigyan.com>
wrote:
> ? ? I was under the impression that CERN uses Scientific Linux, with some
> local additions, not CentOS. ?SL is another RedHat rebuild.
For their main cluster [1] they use SLC witch is a version of SL, so
another rebuild. For even more info look at [2].

But of course there are a lot of similarities and some rpms might be
used from other sources. But every department can pretty much decide
by their own, what they want to use. I know of a small Debian cluster
and even a Mac one. But if you would count all the machines you would
probably end up with, that most are SLC.

So no official CentOS @ Cern :( even if I know of 5 desktop installations.

Cheers Didi


[1] http://batch.web.cern.ch/batch/

[2] http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/
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