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Well, they're not really creating a distro from scratch in the way that Debian maintainers pull source code from various upstream projects and spend weeks to mo
by fl3tch 15y ago
Well, they're not really creating a distro from scratch in the way that Debian maintainers pull source code from various upstream projects and spend weeks to months doing bug testing. The RHEL sources that the SL folks pull have already been bug tested and verified to work very well. The SL folks are compiling those sources (with their own modifications). Of course, you could do this with the Debian or Ubuntu source code, but I guess they figure if you're going to get source code from somewhere, it might as well be a well-known enterprise distro.
- javert 15y agoWhy not just contribute the changes they need upstream where possible, and maintain a repo for additional "scientific" packages (or just fork and start new projects) when that strategy doesn't work?
- hobin 15y agoBecause then they would no longer have complete control over what gets in their packages. In a place like CERN, total control is something people like to have.
- javert 15y agoThanks, but and maintain a repo for additional "scientific" packages (or just fork and start new projects) when that strategy doesn't work