I find it extremely puzzling that you can express so much fear about IBM
and then even consider moving into the arms of Oracle!
I used Scientific Linux for about 10 years and it was fantastic. Close
to 4 years ago I moved to a new place which uses CentOS instead. It also
works just fine, other than the support cycle being a bit different
there is almost zero pain or re-learning involved. If that wasn't
enough, FNAL and CERN have also clearly put their faith into CentOS for
the future.
On 2/23/2020 12:24 AM, Yasha Karant wrote:
From below:
Will look forward to move to another distribution.
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The question is: which distro? My first hope was Oracle EL 8 -- given
that Oracle has to compete with IBM and thus, unlike CentOS that may or
may not fit into the profit/business long term plan of IBM (long term --
less than a decade, but more than three or four years -- at least
through EL 9 first production release), provide a "working and usable"
product, just as was SL. After reading comments on this list, I am more
tempted to give up on EL and move to Ubuntu LTS. But -- I have not made
a decision. For those who require a reliable, production, stable, but
reasonably "current" Linux environment ("current" means that when I need
an application, I will not find that there are no ports of the recent
releases of the application to the Linux I am using because the major
libraries -- .so files -- are too "obsolete"), what choices are
available? In so far as possible, I want the same distro to work on
servers (and have CUDA support for compute servers with Nvidia GPU
compute boards as well as MPI) and my laptop "workstation".
