> At some point ... Yasha you are writing some very strange stuff.
> NDA collaboration contracts that exist for the various > CERN/Fermilab experiments ... if your NDA stands for "non-disclosure ...", then I must say that I do not believe there are any secret agreements between experiments and linux vendors. We do have NDAs with hardware vendors for access to secret documentation and secret firmware source code, but I never heard of any special agreements with any Linux vendors. if you know something we do not know, please tell us more. > ... Your observations on RHEL indicate that except for those > who license RHEL for fee with an IBM RH support contract, RHEL is > not an viable stable long-term (nor immediate) alternative. I must put it on record that I did not say any such thing. I say: a) RHEL8 is here and you can use it free of charge (16 free subscriptions) b) you can upgrade your CentOS-8 machine to RHEL8 with minimum trouble (I posted instructions on this list here) c) Red Hat made a serious mistake back in December by announcing "the end of CentOS as we know it" without providing (a) and (b) ahead of time d) by not providing 32-bit x86 and 32-bit ARM versions of RHEL they are at a severe disadvantage in places like a typical Physics lab (CentOS used to provide both, but they killed it). So there. There is nothing wrong with RHEL8. If it works for you, use it! -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
