Will CERN/Fermilab provide the same level of support to AlmaLinux that 

currently is provided for Scientific Linux?  Will this list transition 

into an AlmaLinux list?



I have looked at the non-vendor lists for non-vendor ports of production 

RHEL current (CentOS basically is a vendor port).  Very few of these 

have the general professionalism that was present on the SL list.  I 

personally have transitioned to Ubuntu LTS current production; one thing 

I sorely miss is straightforward answers that the SL list provided. 

However, unlike RHEL, Ubuntu LTS does support a larger selection of 

recent laptop hardware platforms and allow for the most recent 

production versions of particular end-user applications.  Nonetheless, 

there are situations in which a RHEL current tested production clone 

would be of use



On 12/7/22 11:53, Glenn Cooper wrote:

> CERN and Fermilab jointly plan to provide AlmaLinux as the standard 

> distribution for experiments at our facilities, reflecting recent 

> experience and discussions with experiments and other stakeholders. 

> AlmaLinux has recently been gaining traction among the community due to 

> its long life cycle for each major version, extended architecture 

> support, rapid release cycle, upstream community contributions, and 

> support for security advisory metadata. In testing, it has demonstrated 

> to be perfectly compatible with the other rebuilds and Red Hat 

> Enterprise Linux.

> 

> CERN and, to a lesser extent, Fermilab, will also use Red Hat Enterprise 

> Linux (RHEL) for some services and applications within the respective 

> laboratories. Scientific Linux 7, at Fermilab, and CERN CentOS 7, at 

> CERN, will continue to be supported for their remaining life, until June 

> 2024.

>