To be clear, Fermilab has not stopped using or developing Scientific Linux. The Scientific Linux team remains intact and hard at work.
Steve Timm ________________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Bruce Ferrell <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 9:17 PM To: Steven Haigh; scientific-linux-users Subject: Re: Fermi has stopped using SL? On 04/08/2016 07:13 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 9/04/2016 12:07 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote: >> I heard a rumor today that said Fermi labs has moved off of Scientific Linux >> to Centos? > Here is my new car, same as my old car. > > For me, the benefit of SL isn't the code - its the community. I can > email Pat etc with tech problems that just get lost in the noise of CentOS. > > Considering you can change from SL to CentOS on a running system with > only one reboot, you'll notice how small a change this actually is. > Sorry, the answer is non-responsive... And it's not the code I'm concerned about. SL represents a certain set of engineering decisions that I agree with. Centos is simply a clone of RHEL without RH branding.
