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Re: Fermi has stopped using SL?
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Bruce Ferrell <[log in to unmask]>
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Bruce Ferrell <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 8 Apr 2016 19:17:30 -0700
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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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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