I already moved to Oracle Linux. It’s a clone too, has Oracle backing it and it’s fast to push updates from RHEL. Also they have UEK and Oracle RDMA Release, which is useful in HPC environments.



Perhaps in the future we may move to Alma or Rocky. But for now we’re using Oracle Linux. Stream is not an option either.



When RHEL 8.4 landed, the Oracle guys had OL 8.4 in a single day released. The only thing that I miss from CentOS is CentOS vault, which is unavailable.



Regards.



PS: This is not Oracle Linux propaganda. It’s just fact showing. We know that everybody dislikes Oracle, but that’s what we have right now.



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> On 26 Oct 2021, at 10:21, Mark Stodola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 

> I haven't checked in on this in quite some time.  Has there been a clear preference to Rocky over Alma thus far?  I know I intend to use one or the other, but would be curious to know the direction of the wind among the scientific community.

> 

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>> On 10/26/21 8:18 AM, ~Stack~ wrote:

>>> On 10/25/21 9:27 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

>>> The right decision is to restart Scientific Linux. Obviously that is not going to happen, which leaves organizations like mine in a bind. I am not sure what we will do, but CentOS Stream is definitely not it.

>>> 

>> 

>> 

>> The restart is called https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__rockylinux.org_&d=DwICaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=zu2WhRSN4T1horhPg87GzkI7xBN78HdOdKckGDLwxqmE0n02jZXf3KF02Xed8D--&s=M-7zZdP1KjXMAWHjuu55mPPcibTiP2p9wdKKMlJ-2IE&e= ;-)

>> 

>> There's a big (and growing fast) group of HPC and scientific computing professionals using Rocky 8 already.

>> 

>> ~Stack~