I find it extremely puzzling that you can express so much fear about IBM and then even consider moving into the arms of Oracle! I used Scientific Linux for about 10 years and it was fantastic. Close to 4 years ago I moved to a new place which uses CentOS instead. It also works just fine, other than the support cycle being a bit different there is almost zero pain or re-learning involved. If that wasn't enough, FNAL and CERN have also clearly put their faith into CentOS for the future. On 2/23/2020 12:24 AM, Yasha Karant wrote: > From below: > > Will look forward to move to another distribution. > > End excerpt. > > The question is: which distro? My first hope was Oracle EL 8 -- given > that Oracle has to compete with IBM and thus, unlike CentOS that may or > may not fit into the profit/business long term plan of IBM (long term -- > less than a decade, but more than three or four years -- at least > through EL 9 first production release), provide a "working and usable" > product, just as was SL. After reading comments on this list, I am more > tempted to give up on EL and move to Ubuntu LTS. But -- I have not made > a decision. For those who require a reliable, production, stable, but > reasonably "current" Linux environment ("current" means that when I need > an application, I will not find that there are no ports of the recent > releases of the application to the Linux I am using because the major > libraries -- .so files -- are too "obsolete"), what choices are > available? In so far as possible, I want the same distro to work on > servers (and have CUDA support for compute servers with Nvidia GPU > compute boards as well as MPI) and my laptop "workstation".