On 5/6/21 3:21 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
Excerpt from a previous post on this matter:
On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 02:43 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
The misfeatures you've groused about are not due to AlmaLinux, they're
straight RHEL problems. Let's assign blame and credit where they are
due.
End excerpt.
Presumably, Rocky Linux (IBM RHEL "clone") does have the same
"misfeatures"? Would one of the after-EL repos (ElRepo et al.) be
willing to produce an alternative set of RPMs to address the
"misfeatures"? Would Alma or Rocky or ... ? No point in mentioning
Fermilab/CERN -- SL8 will never exist.
Since Rocky is aiming for exact 1:1 compatibility then I would say that
there won't be much deviation there.
However, there are a number of Special Interests Groups forming around
Rocky. I know that when you look at the member list of groups like the
Rocky SIG/HPC some of the names (and edu's associated) are quite well
known. Even though Rocky _just_ released their first RC, there is
already development underway for HPC support packages for Rocky. Several
of the SIG's are gearing up for development and it won't surprise me if
several are ready at or near official Rocky release (soon!).
If there was interest in a SIG/HEP I have no doubt they'd help carve out
a community. I know you've voiced in the past you wanted an education or
commercial entity backing your HEP operating system and you won't fully
get that with Rocky. But if enough in the HEP community got together to
form a Rocky SIG it might be easier to address the concerns you have
with the OS tools already built for you.
Hope that helps.
~Stack~
