On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 5:54 PM Jack Aboutboul <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi Bonnie, Dave, et. al.
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> I am a long time Fedora person and now the community manager of AlmaLinux.

Cool. I've set up a VM with AlmaLinux 8 myself, it's been well behaved so far.

This kind of friendly outreach to the community is worth a *lot* of
brownie points.

Nico Kadel-Garcia

> We certainly understand the quandary you are now in and we deeply value the work that you and the scientific (both capital S and lower-case) community do. It is of utmost importance to humanity. Likewise, we can only begin to image the loop that the CentOS EOL announcement must have caused you.
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> We are ready, willing and able to help. We released our x86_64 STABLE a drop over a month ago and are working on other architectures now. We are also in the process of opening up our-next generation build system, amongst other things.
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> I extend a hand to the Scientific community-at-large to work together with you all to build whatever it is that you need. We are even open to offering a board seat (yes despite what FUD people try and spread, we are community-governed) to someone from fermilab/cern (or some other representative) to ensure that the relevant voices are heard and acted upon.
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> I’m reaching out to you out of my own volition, because I respect you and the work you do and its vital impact in the humanity both present and future.
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> Seriously, anything we can do for you guys, any way we can help in order to promote and foster scientific research, we stand at the fore ready to get it done.
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> I am sure there may be questions and I would be glad to answer anything anyone would like to know more about.
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> Thanks
> Jack
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> > On May 3, 2021, at 07:25, Bonnie King <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Konstantin,
> >
> > There hasn't been any official statement. On the Fermilab side we are holding discussions and gathering feedback from experiments and other collaborators.
> >
> > We are working on it and will make an announcement soon.
> >
> > Bonnie King
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Konstantin Olchanski <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2021 9:27 AM
> > To: Dave Dykstra
> > Cc: scientific-linux-users
> > Subject: Re: any update on CERN Linux and CentOS-8 situation?
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 09:35:02PM +0000, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> >> Both Fermilab and CERN have stated that they plan to use CentOS 8 stream
> >> for now (or Scientific Linux 7 or CentOS 7) and will evaluate later
> >> whether or not to switch to one of the clones.
> >
> > Interesting. I do not see any information about this and I believe
> > I receive both internal and external official communications from CERN.
> >
> > Do you know who and when made this "centos stream" statement?
> >
> > K.O.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >> On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 10:35:18AM -0700, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
> >>> Any news or updates on the status of CERN Linux?
> >>>
> >>> Per https://linux.web.cern.ch/centos8/ CERN users are strongly encouraged
> >>> to use CentOS-8 while the same page states that support for CentOS-8 will
> >>> end at the end of this year. Update is promised "during Q1 2021", today
> >>> we are 1/3 into Q2 2021, and there is no new information.
> >>>
> >>> The CentOS forums are graveyard quiet. (censored?)
> >>>
> >>> Any information from the FermiLab side of things? Any information from the SL side
> >>> of things? Any rumours?
> >>>
> >>> I opened a support ticket with CERN about this, let's see what they say.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Konstantin Olchanski
> >>> Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
> >>> Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca
> >>> Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
> >
> > --
> > Konstantin Olchanski
> > Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow!
> > Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca
> > Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada