[Beowulf] [External] RIP CentOS 8

[Ryan Novosielski]

It’s pretty common that if something supports only one distribution, it’s RedHat-based. That’s also true of hardware vendors.

--
#BlackLivesMatter
____
|| \\UTGERS,  	 |---------------------------*O*---------------------------
||_// the State	 |         Ryan Novosielski - novosirj at rutgers.edu
|| \\ University | Sr. Technologist - 973/972.0922 (2x0922) ~*~ RBHS Campus
||  \\    of NJ	 | Office of Advanced Research Computing - MSB C630, Newark
     `'

> On Dec 8, 2020, at 4:50 PM, Jörg Saßmannshausen <sassy-work at sassy.formativ.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> what I never understood is: why are people not using Debian?
> 
> I done some cluster installation (up to 100 or so nodes) with Debian, more or 
> less out of the box, and I did not have any issue with it. I admit, I might 
> have missed out something I don't know about, the famous unkown-unkowns, but 
> by enlarge the clusters were running rock solid with no unusual problem. 
> I did not use Lustre or GPFS etc. on it, I only played around a bit with BeeFS 
> and some GlusterFS in a small scale. 
> 
> Just wondering, as people mentioned Ubuntu.
> 
> All the best from a dark London
> 
> Jörg
> 
> Am Dienstag, 8. Dezember 2020, 21:12:02 GMT schrieb Christopher Samuel:
>> On 12/8/20 1:06 pm, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:
>>> I wouldn't be surprised if this causes Scientific Linux to come back
>>> into existence.
>> 
>> It sounds like Greg K is already talking about CentOS-NG (via the ACM
>> SIGHPC syspro Slack):
>> 
>> https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gmkurtzer_centos-project-shifts-focus-to-cent
>> os-stream-activity-6742165208107761664-Ng4C
>> 
>> All the best,
>> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing
> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf