Has anyone tried the Institute for Advanced Study Springdale (IAS) EL 8 
distro?  Is this in fact a complete distro that uses Epel and ElRepo as 
did SL? Does it install and boot as did SL?  Supposedly, Springdale can 
replace SL, although unlike SL that was "supported" by professional 
employed and compensated Staff for Fermilab/CERN for which it was a 
"standard", the IAS evidently has less professional staff allocation to 
Springdale than did the HEP community (mostly through Fermilab/CERN).

On 3/4/21 5:38 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 4:23 AM Werf, C.G. van der (Carel)
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Seems a recurring issue ...
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>> Any reason why https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__scientificlinux.org_downloads_sl-2Dversions_sl7_&d=DwIFaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=5JGkD-uMMCMgsNk_UitM_d3rjThRycW4r9KnT4g5QcA&s=qdOGXKb37rG3sm-a42srP2DQtZCSrnpkYoN6CMTmojo&e=   is stuck in 2019 ?
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>> It shows SL 7.9 is “NA”.
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> Isn't that about when Scientific Linux admins deferred to CentOS and
> encouraged people to migrate to CentOS? That seemed a very positive
> move at the time. Sadly, the decision by RHEL and CentOS to stop
> publishing point releases of CentOS 8 and support only "CentOS 8
> Stream" has lead to a number of discussions and colorful metaphors
> about exactly what stream we're supposed to be dipping from, and has
> lead to many developers and places refusing to use CentOS 8 or, in
> turn RHEL 8.
>