Hi Yasha,



> Will CERN/Fermilab provide the same level of support to AlmaLinux that currently is provided for Scientific Linux? 



AlmaLinux has its own support channels, so those are the way to go if you choose Alma.



> Will this list transition into an AlmaLinux list?



There are no plans for that. We'll continue to support Scientific Linux, and this list, until the end of upstream support in 2024.



> Very few of these have the general professionalism that was present on the SL list.



Thanks to all for the helpful answers and friendly attitude!



Yours,

Glenn





On 12/7/22, 2:11 PM, "[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Yasha Karant" <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> on behalf of [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:





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.

>