Re: RE Future:

2019-04-29 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 03:40:11PM -0400, Larry Linder wrote: > > As a private company we need the stability and consistency of a > commercial product supported by a Gov agency for long term stability. > > Will we stay with CentOS is a big [question] > I think you are safe sticking with "CERN

RE Future:

2019-04-29 Thread Larry Linder
Cannot read crystal ball as it is just a cloud at the moment. As an industrial users RH has be a point of stability in the Linux world. I don't need the latest SW I just need it to be consistent and reliable. Several of our servers have run several years between shut downs due to periodic

Re: question regarding the future

2019-04-29 Thread Brett Viren
Bill Maidment writes: > If anything does go awry in the future, I do not see major science > institutions sitting back and doing nothing about it. Maybe even SL > would then arise again? Call it Phoenix? My personal guess is that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to again create a Linux