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.

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