Rocky, RHEL or back to CentOS 7
by borisb2 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5RS14)
Hi there,
When doing vfx in my own little office until 2017 I was successfully using CentOS 7 on both 3 HP-workstations and a little renderfarm (12 nodes, still workstations but without GUI).
After making a break for 4 years (worked in a bigger company) I am planning to bring that office back to life with new hardware etc.
Now the big question would be if I should start where I left off 4 years ago using CentOS 7 or switching to Rocky 8.4 or even RHEL 8.4 (with free developer subscription).
I don't need to have too many apps running, mainly some 3d (Houdini, Maya) as well as 2d (DaVinci and Nuke) - and Pixar Render-manager.
I installed Rocky on an older Lenovo laptop - looks promising with KDE 5 (which is not available on CentOS7 afaik)
What's your take on Rocky?
Thanks for any insights ..
When doing vfx in my own little office until 2017 I was successfully using CentOS 7 on both 3 HP-workstations and a little renderfarm (12 nodes, still workstations but without GUI).
After making a break for 4 years (worked in a bigger company) I am planning to bring that office back to life with new hardware etc.
Now the big question would be if I should start where I left off 4 years ago using CentOS 7 or switching to Rocky 8.4 or even RHEL 8.4 (with free developer subscription).
I don't need to have too many apps running, mainly some 3d (Houdini, Maya) as well as 2d (DaVinci and Nuke) - and Pixar Render-manager.
I installed Rocky on an older Lenovo laptop - looks promising with KDE 5 (which is not available on CentOS7 afaik)
What's your take on Rocky?
Thanks for any insights ..