Scientific Linux's Troy Dawson Leaves FermiLabs For Red Hat 49
First time accepted submitter EponymousCustard writes "On a day of big resignations, we also hear that Troy Dawson of the Scientific Linux project is joining Red Hat, and will no longer be working on Scientific Linux. It will be a big loss. thanks to Troy for all the great work!"
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If you worked at Fermilab, they wouldn't be.
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would that be the big bang theory? ;)
WTF? (Score:3)
Fermilab is not shutting down. The tevatron is but Fermi is actively participating in the CMS detector at the LHC and has a few projects looking at neutrino physics and other things in the intensity frontier.
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Illinois, on the other hand, is shutting down. Get out while you can!
Good Luck Troy! (Score:4)
As an ex-Fermilab employee myself who was lucky enough to work with Troy (and able to just email him when I needed a feature stuck into SSH in SL), congratulations! Best of luck!
It's FermiLab. Not 'labs' (Score:1)
Apparently it's not just death... (Score:2)
Things always come in threes, right?
Right when SL increases in popularity... (Score:4, Interesting)
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While CentOS is nice, you get what you get, and they're not about to share all the secret sauce they have figured out which you'd need to fork your own CentOS-like build process.
I suspect if Ascendos takes off, it could easily replace CentOS and/or cause many more CentOS build-process forks.
Ah... CentOS as it is is useful to Redhat. Redhat makes RHEL hard to figure out how to build, and the CentOS team has so few resources that it took them a year to get a release out.
But, Oracle has more resources and got
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Troy isn't the main SL developer, he is one of two main developers. SL's original developer is still there, and it's pretty likely Fermilab will find a potential replacement for Troy from their pool of Linux talent.
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Troy isn't the main SL developer, he is one of two main developers. SL's original developer is still there, and it's pretty likely Fermilab will find a potential replacement for Troy from their pool of Linux talent.
Right. Garfunkle's still there. They just lost Simon.
(Or is it the other way around?)
There can be only one (Score:1)
It looks like it's the end of the Gravy Train for people wanting a Free RHEL....
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Not if you jump in and help. Think I'm joking?
Sad day for SL, happy day for Red Hat. (Score:1)
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As a SL desktop user, I hope this doesn't negatively affect SL. But, I hope Troy and Red Hat do well together.
Well, Fermilab still has a large number of SL machines, and will continue to have, and support, a large number of SL machines. We will continue to need some kind of supported linux for scientific applications. Whilst in principle the lab and user community could migrate to something else instead of producing SL6, SL7 and so on, it seems unlikely that an alternative would involve less work.
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as someone who used an SL box to control a film scanner, what's the difference between SL and any other distro?
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Any other distro? I get to pick?
Well, the difference between Arch and SL is that SL sucks. (e.g. System V overcomplexity all up in your init scripts, patches things too much, obsolete package versions, package manager that isn't the one I like.) All the sort of suckage that makes a typical enterprise OS unsuitable for my home PC.
Or is that not what you meant?
(And if anyone infers I don't understand the converse unsuitability of Arch for a typical enterprise deployment, thanks for projecting, we now know how
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SL is based on, and closely tracks, Redhat's Enterprise Linux product, which has been designed to offer stability and very long support periods (at least 7 years after release I think). That's what makes it suitable for servers, whereas most other* Linux distro's have shorter release and support cycles (12-18 months) and tend to use more recent versions of software, which makes them arguably more unstable.
* Note there are other 'enterprise ready' long-support cycle distros such as Debian Stable, or Suse Lin
Troy was to be (Score:1)
I don't know if this had anything to do with it, but Troy was contributing time to Ascendos [ascendos.org], a totally open project in light of problems with CentOS' closed development (open in the development project, so anyone at any time could fork the whole development and all the tools involved).
http://lists.ascendos.org/pipermail/ascendos-dev/2011-July/000000.html [ascendos.org]
Apparently he won't be able to continue contributing to Ascendos (or Scientific Linux, but that was a paid gig):
http://lists.ascendos.org/pipermail/ascendos [ascendos.org]
Congratulations Troy! (Score:3)
I remember when Troy stated work at Fermilab. It doesn't seem like that long ago.
It is gratifying to see how successful SL has become over the years. I know Connie and Troy have poured their guts into it.
Best of wishes in the adventure ahead. I hope you don't end up taking Connie with you.
Coincidence that he is leaving the same day as Commander Taco and Steve Jobs? I think not!
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Commander Taco left Slashdot? So GNAA won ?
PUIAS Linux Peeps... (Score:1)
Here's his message to the mailing list (Score:3, Informative)
Hi,
I have loved all the years that I have been a developer and architect for Scientific Linux, but it is time for me to move on. I have accepted a job offer from Red Hat to work on their new openshift project. ( https://www.redhat.com/openshift/ [redhat.com] )
My last day working for Fermilab, and on the Scientific Linux project will be September 2, 2011.
Thank you to everyone who has encouraged, thanked, and helped me over the past 8 years that I have worked on Scientific Linux. I have said it before, and I'll say it now, The Scientific Linux community is one of the best communities there is.
Troy
Best of Luck from the "New Guy"! (Score:2)
Troy is a great guy and will be missed. I've only been here ~3 months and I've already asked him innumerable questions about SLF.
Best of luck from MHD, Troy!
Fermi Linux (Score:1)