It's just the continuing merger. Years ago the reduced what they were building, and relied more on CentOS. Now they are just embracing more and more of the 'greater community.' A lot of Fedora contributors (heavily so Red Hat employees) have made other avenues available.
- bjs On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 4:01 PM Marc Baudoin <[email protected]> wrote: > As Scientific Linux is mentioned in the Linux Essentials > objectives, this should be considered for a future objectives > update: > > > https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/04/24/1845203/scientific-linux-distro-is-being-discontinued-the-fermi-national-accelerator-laboratory-and-cern-will-move-to-centos > > Scientific Linux, a 14-year-old operating system based on Red Hat > Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and which was maintained by some > significant members of the scientific community such as The Fermi > National Accelerator Laboratory and CERN, is being discontinued. > From a report: > > While current versions (6 and 7) will continue to be supported, > future development has permanently ended, with the organizations > instead turning to CentOS -- another distro based on RHEL. > "Scientific Linux is driven by Fermilab's scientific mission and > focused on the changing needs of experimental facilities. > Fermilab is looking ahead to DUNE and other future international > collaborations. One part of this is unifying our computing > platform with collaborating labs and institutions," said James > Amundson, Head of Scientific Computing Division, Fermi National > Accelerator Laboratory. > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev -- -- Bryan J Smith - http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith E-mail: b.j.smith at ieee.org or me at bjsmith.me
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