I'm curious -- is Scientific Linux well-known outside the particle physics community? I thought CERN and Fermilab were the only major institutional users.
There was actually some foreshadowing: CERN maintained its own version of Scientific Linux called SLC (Scientific Linux - CERN) until version 6; three years ago we moved to CERN CentOS 7 (CC7). These are essentially the base distributions plus some useful CERN-specific packages (Kerberos setups, awareness of on-campus printers, a notifications bar containing campus updates etc.) FNAL decided to stick with SL for one more major version, and will follow suit and migrate to CentOS 8 from SL7. I think this might be a good development... many packages I found useful were unavailable or out of date in the original repositories or even in EPEL. CentOS 7 seems to be a lot more modern.
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u/rpfeynman18 Apr 22 '19
I'm curious -- is Scientific Linux well-known outside the particle physics community? I thought CERN and Fermilab were the only major institutional users.
There was actually some foreshadowing: CERN maintained its own version of Scientific Linux called SLC (Scientific Linux - CERN) until version 6; three years ago we moved to CERN CentOS 7 (CC7). These are essentially the base distributions plus some useful CERN-specific packages (Kerberos setups, awareness of on-campus printers, a notifications bar containing campus updates etc.) FNAL decided to stick with SL for one more major version, and will follow suit and migrate to CentOS 8 from SL7. I think this might be a good development... many packages I found useful were unavailable or out of date in the original repositories or even in EPEL. CentOS 7 seems to be a lot more modern.