On 5/6/21 3:21 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> Excerpt from a previous post on this matter:
> 
> On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 02:43 -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> The misfeatures you've groused about are not due to AlmaLinux, they're
> straight RHEL problems. Let's assign blame and credit where they are
> due.
> End excerpt.
> 
> Presumably, Rocky Linux (IBM RHEL "clone") does have the same 
> "misfeatures"?  Would one of the after-EL repos (ElRepo et al.) be 
> willing to produce an alternative set of RPMs to address the 
> "misfeatures"?  Would Alma or Rocky or ... ?  No point in mentioning 
> Fermilab/CERN -- SL8 will never exist.

Since Rocky is aiming for exact 1:1 compatibility then I would say that 
there won't be much deviation there.

However, there are a number of Special Interests Groups forming around 
Rocky. I know that when you look at the member list of groups like the 
Rocky SIG/HPC some of the names (and edu's associated) are quite well 
known. Even though Rocky _just_ released their first RC, there is 
already development underway for HPC support packages for Rocky. Several 
of the SIG's are gearing up for development and it won't surprise me if 
several are ready at or near official Rocky release (soon!).

If there was interest in a SIG/HEP I have no doubt they'd help carve out 
a community. I know you've voiced in the past you wanted an education or 
commercial entity backing your HEP operating system and you won't fully 
get that with Rocky. But if enough in the HEP community got together to 
form a Rocky SIG it might be easier to address the concerns you have 
with the OS tools already built for you.

Hope that helps.
~Stack~