Links from User Group

[Nick Cannon]

Thank you to all those who attended the User Group earlier today. We'll look into posting the recording in a couple of weeks, after SIGGRAPH is out of the way.

As promised in the discussion, here are some of the links we mentioned:

VFX Reference Platform website - https://vfxplatform.com

Links from JF's aswf-docker overview:

• https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/aswf-docker
• https://hub.docker.com/u/aswf
• https://linuxfoundation.jfrog.io/artifactory/aswf-conan/

The full VFX Linux report from last year, the recommendation from which is still as valid today as it was when we published it 12 months ago - https://bit.ly/VFXlinux22

Recent news about RHEL's decision to limit access to source code, and various responses from the downstream distribution maintainers:

• https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes
• https://rockylinux.org/news/
• https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/
• https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/
• https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/

The new VFX Reference Platform wiki which is initially focused on being a community hub for sharing tips and gotchas for upgrading from CentOS/RHEL 7 to EL 8 or 9:

• https://github.com/vfxplatform/vfxplatform/wiki

Where you can continue the discussion:

• Here on our main mailing list - https://groups.google.com/g/vfx-platform-discuss
• #vfx_reference_platform on the ASWF Slack - https://slack.aswf.io/
• #discuss-os on the SSA Slack - https://studiosysadmins.slack.com/signup 
• Or you can send feedback privately to feed...@vfxplatform.com

Nick