On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 10:56:39AM -0800, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 4:58 PM Keith Lofstrom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > So - who else is contemplating a move to Debian?
> 
> We will be following CERN and Fermilab's lead, whatever that is.
> 

Same here. We build experiments that are located at CERN, and people
who run these experiments are most comfortable if we use linux supported
or at least approved/annointed by CERN.

With the covid lockdown at CERN and everybody there working from home,
my contacts do not have any insider information. I used ot have some contacts through ROOT,
still watch that space and I see that ROOT have binary kits for every MacOS, for every
Ubuntu, for recent Fedora, for CentOS-7, but NOT for CentOS-8. I think there is a message here.

>
> But the longer we go without knowing, the more uncomfortable we get.
> Anybody have any inside information on their thinking?
> 

We all know what happened last time this happened (RHL->RHEL kerfuffle).

This time, I suspect that Red Hat did not see CERN, ATLAS, LHC experiments,
US DOE Labs in their list of paying customers and went ahead without consulting
with them.

Me, I am not worried, between debian/ubuntu, "free" RHEL and upcoming CentOS
reincarnations, our needs for open source operating systems are covered.

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