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Maybe Scientific Linux can get revived.

• brnt 6y ago
  I wonder what Cern Linux [1] are going to do. They're basically CentOS' CentOS. [1] https://linux.web.cern.ch/ https://linux.web.cern.ch/
• mrweasel 6y ago
  Wasn't CentOS "adopted" by RedHat because no one else really wanted to do the work? A revived Scientific Linux could easy suffer the same fate. No one truly want to maintain a RedHat clone for little to no pay, while at the same time dealing request and complaints from companies who wants the benefits of RHEL, but no pay for the development and maintenance works done by RedHat. Realistically it's some bean counter at IBM who asked why RedHat is giving away the very same thing they're trying to sell. Said bean counter do have a point in my opinion.
  • jmnicolas 6y ago
    > why RedHat is giving away the very same thing they're trying to sell Goodwill. I use CentOS and until now if I had a project were Linux support had been important I would have gone with Redhat. They can rot in hell now.
    • pnutjam 6y ago
      Have you heard of OpenSuse.
      • jmnicolas 6y ago
        Frankly I'm not going to take the risk of being burned again by some corporate money grab. I will go with Debian.
  • fomine3 6y ago
    CERN pays?