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To be clear, Fermilab has not stopped using or developing Scientific Linux.
The Scientific Linux team remains intact and hard at work.
Steve Timm
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From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Bruce Ferrell <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 9:17 PM
To: Steven Haigh; scientific-linux-users
Subject: Re: Fermi has stopped using SL?
On 04/08/2016 07:13 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
> On 9/04/2016 12:07 PM, Bruce Ferrell wrote:
>> I heard a rumor today that said Fermi labs has moved off of Scientific Linux to Centos?
> Here is my new car, same as my old car.
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> For me, the benefit of SL isn't the code - its the community. I can
> email Pat etc with tech problems that just get lost in the noise of CentOS.
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> Considering you can change from SL to CentOS on a running system with
> only one reboot, you'll notice how small a change this actually is.
>
Sorry, the answer is non-responsive... And it's not the code I'm concerned about.
SL represents a certain set of engineering decisions that I agree with.
Centos is simply a clone of RHEL without RH branding.
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