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Re: Centos vs. SL
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Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]>
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Orion Poplawski <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:17:22 -0700
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On 01/09/2014 05:54 AM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:.
> What technical differences would be between CentOS + scientific repo and SL?
> 
> Just a personal thought, but maybe this would free some human resources
> for maintaining a lot of scientific (and IT/grid related) packages in
> well established repos (like epel, fedora/rpmfusion)
> 
> Thanks!
> Adrian
> 

Well, for me the main difference between CentOS and SL is that with SL you can
stay on EL point releases.  That would require a major change in the CentOS
infrastructure to support it.  Worth exploring though...


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