On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 04:39:32PM -0800, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > > It has been almost exactly seven years since Red Hat bought CentOS >
The way I remember it, RedHat approached CentOS lead developers and made them an offer they could not refuse. > > Very curious how CERN and Fermilab will respond to this. > Nothing from CERN yet. But to sense where the wind is blowing, note how ROOT still do not provide a binary kit for CentOS-8. https://root.cern/releases/release-62206/ Our experiment at CERN (ALPHA anti-hydrogen trapping and spectroscopy) uses CentOS-7 and we are in discussions over upgrading to CentOS-8 or Ubuntu LTS 20.04. All our RaspberyPi machines will probably become converted from CentOS-7 to Raspbian (Ubuntu/Debian). For DAQ and analysis machines, there is a preference for CentOS-8, but if we they tell us now that CentOS-8 is a dead end and in 1 year will will have to upgrade *again*, Ubuntu may become the preferred solution. -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
