CERN Renounces RHEL in Favor of Debian

hhilux about 2 hours ago 2 commentsRead Article on infoq.com

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nwmcsween•about 1 hour ago

Is there a reason almalinux or rockylinux wasn't used? I would except CERN to want first class Selinux support no?

ocd•8 minutes ago

I often think of Debian as a bit moldy from some changes over the years with legacy support (kludges?) in place, where it seemed more like an outdated Arch Linux at some point once it had switched to systemd.

But if I were CERN, I understand the choice of not getting involved with newer forks that aren't novel distributions you can trust to be around for the long haul. I would choose Debian as well in their place.

jonathanspw•8 minutes ago

This is a dumb and inaccurate headline.

burnt-resistor•about 1 hour ago

Well, those are functional clones of RHEL/CentOS and unsuitable for CERN as mentioned in the article.