On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 5:54 PM Jack Aboutboul <j...@almalinux.org> wrote: > > Hi Bonnie, Dave, et. al. > > I am a long time Fedora person and now the community manager of AlmaLinux.
Cool. I've set up a VM with AlmaLinux 8 myself, it's been well behaved so far. This kind of friendly outreach to the community is worth a *lot* of brownie points. Nico Kadel-Garcia > We certainly understand the quandary you are now in and we deeply value the > work that you and the scientific (both capital S and lower-case) community > do. It is of utmost importance to humanity. Likewise, we can only begin to > image the loop that the CentOS EOL announcement must have caused you. > > We are ready, willing and able to help. We released our x86_64 STABLE a drop > over a month ago and are working on other architectures now. We are also in > the process of opening up our-next generation build system, amongst other > things. > > I extend a hand to the Scientific community-at-large to work together with > you all to build whatever it is that you need. We are even open to offering a > board seat (yes despite what FUD people try and spread, we are > community-governed) to someone from fermilab/cern (or some other > representative) to ensure that the relevant voices are heard and acted upon. > > I’m reaching out to you out of my own volition, because I respect you and the > work you do and its vital impact in the humanity both present and future. > > Seriously, anything we can do for you guys, any way we can help in order to > promote and foster scientific research, we stand at the fore ready to get it > done. > > I am sure there may be questions and I would be glad to answer anything > anyone would like to know more about. > > Thanks > Jack > > > On May 3, 2021, at 07:25, Bonnie King <bonn...@fnal.gov> wrote: > > > > Hi Konstantin, > > > > There hasn't been any official statement. On the Fermilab side we are > > holding discussions and gathering feedback from experiments and other > > collaborators. > > > > We are working on it and will make an announcement soon. > > > > Bonnie King > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov > > <owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov> on behalf of Konstantin > > Olchanski <olcha...@triumf.ca> > > Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2021 9:27 AM > > To: Dave Dykstra > > Cc: scientific-linux-users > > Subject: Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation? > > > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 09:35:02PM +0000, Dave Dykstra wrote: > >> Both Fermilab and CERN have stated that they plan to use CentOS 8 stream > >> for now (or Scientific Linux 7 or CentOS 7) and will evaluate later > >> whether or not to switch to one of the clones. > > > > Interesting. I do not see any information about this and I believe > > I receive both internal and external official communications from CERN. > > > > Do you know who and when made this "centos stream" statement? > > > > K.O. > > > > > >> > >> Dave > >> > >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 10:35:18AM -0700, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > >>> Any news or updates on the status of CERN Linux? > >>> > >>> Per https://linux.web.cern.ch/centos8/ CERN users are strongly encouraged > >>> to use CentOS-8 while the same page states that support for CentOS-8 will > >>> end at the end of this year. Update is promised "during Q1 2021", today > >>> we are 1/3 into Q2 2021, and there is no new information. > >>> > >>> The CentOS forums are graveyard quiet. (censored?) > >>> > >>> Any information from the FermiLab side of things? Any information from > >>> the SL side > >>> of things? Any rumours? > >>> > >>> I opened a support ticket with CERN about this, let's see what they say. > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> 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 > > > > -- > > 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