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. >