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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.
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<div class="">On 8 Dec 2020, at 21:57, Joe Landman <<a href="mailto:joe.landman@gmail.com" class="">joe.landman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p class="">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.<br class="">
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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”
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 8 Dec 2020, at 21:50, Jörg Saßmannshausen <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sassy-work@sassy.formativ.net"><sassy-work@sassy.formativ.net></a> 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:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 12/8/20 1:06 pm, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I wouldn't be surprised if this causes Scientific Linux to come back
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">It sounds like Greg K is already talking about CentOS-NG (via the ACM
SIGHPC syspro Slack):
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Chris
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