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I believe NASA does use RHEL, I remember a story last year where they were moving some systems from SUSE to RHEL. My guess is that IBM was so difficult to deal
by cmiles74 3y ago
I believe NASA does use RHEL, I remember a story last year where they were moving some systems from SUSE to RHEL.
My guess is that IBM was so difficult to deal with that they decided to move away from RHEL wherever they could. Perhaps getting the actual support they purchased was too much of a challenge.
If IBM is pissed, they should take a good hard look in the mirror before they malign other distributions.
https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/support/kb/news/transition-to-red-hat-enterprise-linux-from-suse-linux-enterprise-server-planned-for-fall-2021_606.html https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/support/kb/news/transition-to-...
- Beermotor 3y agoNASA's IT used to be split into the field centers and a central core IT organization. The field centers managed their own stuff, but anything agency-wide was handled by the core IT organization. Central IT also usually won out when there was a conflict. When NASA combined their disparate field center mail systems into one (OneNASA and later NOMAD) massive mail system in 2006-2008 they deployed everything that wasn't the squishy Exchange underbelly on SuSE Enterprise 10. The field centers were very invested in RHEL. Mostly for scientific software and Oracle. JPL has traditionally been separate from the rest of NASA and works with CalTech for their infrastructure.