On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 4:09 PM Konstantin Olchanski <olcha...@triumf.ca> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 06:27:07PM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote: > > > > Has anyone tried the Institute for Advanced Study Springdale (IAS) > > EL 8 distro? > > > > What for? I have my "16 free RHEL subscriptions" to run my 1 el8 machine > for developing and supporting the MIDAS data acquisition package.
I do some larger scale work, and the licensing for these includes a lot of handwaving that makes corporate lawyers very, very nervous about allowing it inside their networks. Coupled with the uncertainty of CentOS 8 Stream components being compatible with RHEL 8, whether EPEL can or will use CentOS Stream or RHEL 8 for building binary compatible requirements, the thoughtful delight that is "Modularity", and at least 7 distinct, overlapping poorly distinguished and partially overlapping software channels for no published or useful reason, and the unwelcome and unnecessary segregation of specific "devel" packages into the "Devel" channel which is not available in CentOS 8 Stream, and I'm seriously discouraged from pushing RHEL 8 and CentOs 8 for any projects whatsoever. Hopefully by the time RHEL 9 rolls around, Red Hat will have let go bright eyed architects who failed to learn the lessons of Red Hat 9 trying to be a "point release free" version of an operating system and learned, the hard way, that point releases are something people rely on and recovered with RHEL 2.x and RHEL 3.x shortly therafter back around 2003. > As for everything else, at this very moment, I am: > > a) converting all our RaspberyPi and FPGA SoC machines (about 10 of them) > from CentOS-7.3 to Raspbian (ARM Debian) Are you? How's that working out?