We (small CS department) went with AlmaLinux. It too came out with 8.4 in a
very short time frame. On Centos it usually took a few weeks, so I was
unprepared for it to be so quick. I only noticed when our clients reported a
different version. New installs are now AlmaLinux and existing Centos8
I already moved to Oracle Linux. It’s a clone too, has Oracle backing it and
it’s fast to push updates from RHEL. Also they have UEK and Oracle RDMA
Release, which is useful in HPC environments.
Perhaps in the future we may move to Alma or Rocky. But for now we’re using
Oracle Linux. Stream is
On 10/26/21 8:21 AM, Mark Stodola wrote:
I haven't checked in on this in quite some time. Has there been a clear
preference to Rocky over Alma thus far? I know I intend to use one or
the other, but would be curious to know the direction of the wind among
the scientific community.
First, I
I haven't checked in on this in quite some time. Has there been a clear
preference to Rocky over Alma thus far? I know I intend to use one or
the other, but would be curious to know the direction of the wind among
the scientific community.
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On 10/26/21 8:18 AM, ~Stack~
On 10/25/21 9:27 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
The right decision is to restart Scientific Linux. Obviously that is not
going to happen, which leaves organizations like mine in a bind. I am
not sure what we will do, but CentOS Stream is definitely not it.
The restart is called
