Yasha,

I'll try to answer as I understand things as an observer.

On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 02:51:30PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
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> 1.  Fermilab and the non-CERN HEP community are not part of the Linux Future
> Community analysis as far as I can read, but are consulted later after the
> analysis is prepared (for HEP or CERN internal)?

Fermilab and CERN have made it clear that they want to do everything
jointly.  They are considering input from the rest of the HEP community.

> 2. CentOS Stream 8 repositories -- are these available outside of CERN?
> Outside of HEP?

CentOS Stream 8 comes straight from Red Hat.

> 3. Note CC7 not SL7.  What are the differences?

CERN and Fermilab did diverge on their approach to EL7.  You know what
SL7 is, and much of the HEP community stuck with that, but CERN based
their operating system on CentOS.  CC7 stands for CERN CentOS 7.  They
are basically compatible and I didn't hear of any application software
that noticed any difference beside the name.

Dave