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.
>