Dave,

We have been discussing this as well. As I mentioned we are more than delighted to have anyone on here join us to discuss the needs of the community and developer proper solutions.

For example, yes, the GNOME desktop environment may be distasteful to some—and thats okay. We can work together to put together solutions, SIGs, repos, etc. that serve the scientific community.

Jack

> On May 7, 2021, at 16:12, Dave Dykstra <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> I would like to see a SIG/Scientific Linux or SIG/Scientific instead of
> SIG/HEP.
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 04:10:06PM -0500, ~Stack~ wrote:
>> 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~