On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:56:39AM -0800, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 4:58 PM Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > > > > So - who else is contemplating a move to Debian? > > We will be following CERN and Fermilab's lead, whatever that is. >
Same here. We build experiments that are located at CERN, and people who run these experiments are most comfortable if we use linux supported or at least approved/annointed by CERN. With the covid lockdown at CERN and everybody there working from home, my contacts do not have any insider information. I used ot have some contacts through ROOT, still watch that space and I see that ROOT have binary kits for every MacOS, for every Ubuntu, for recent Fedora, for CentOS-7, but NOT for CentOS-8. I think there is a message here. > > But the longer we go without knowing, the more uncomfortable we get. > Anybody have any inside information on their thinking? > We all know what happened last time this happened (RHL->RHEL kerfuffle). This time, I suspect that Red Hat did not see CERN, ATLAS, LHC experiments, US DOE Labs in their list of paying customers and went ahead without consulting with them. Me, I am not worried, between debian/ubuntu, "free" RHEL and upcoming CentOS reincarnations, our needs for open source operating systems are covered. -- 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
