On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 03:40:11PM -0400, Larry Linder wrote:
> 
> As a private company we need the stability and consistency of a
> commercial  product supported by a Gov agency for long term stability.
> 
> Will we stay with CentOS is a big [question]
>


I think you are safe sticking with "CERN Linux" (where "6" was SL6,
"7" is CentOS7).

In a way, CERN is a "super gov agency", with major decisions
about Linux and software made be consensus between LHC experiments
which are themselves collaborations between the big US govt labs -
Brookhaven, Berkley, FermiLab, etc.

For the decision on "8", as they say "watch this space":
http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/

Also read the echoes of the decision on "7":
http://linux.web.cern.ch/linux/nextversion.shtml

If anything goes wrong with Red Hat or CentOS, the CERN organization,
in collaboration with US and European Physics labs, has
the technical capability of carrying the Red Hat flavour of linux
forward forever.


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