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Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake

77 points · 56 comments · elashri

  1. znpy · · focus · HN ↗
    I didn’t comment much on this whole topic but what I wondered is: why not Rocky Linux?

    It’s quite literally the modern day CentOS

    1. pferde · · focus · HN ↗
      I suspect that at the time they had to make a decision, Rocky Linux was not in good enough state, so they went with Debian, and now they already standardized around Debian, so no need to change.
      1. forgotpwd16 · · focus · HN ↗
        Debian is to be used for some legacy systems because RHEL introduced microarchitecture restrictions. Rest of their infra is on AlmaLinux (a RHEL-compatible distro ala Rocky).
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