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CERN Transitioning to Debian After Being a Longtime RHEL Institution
- jjgreen 1mo agoJust in time for the slop transition ...
- grahamjperrin 1mo agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1w58wvi/comment/p7dn7r5/?context=1 https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1w58wvi/comment/p7d...
- robtherobber 1mo ago> CERN engineers had considered moving to CentOS Stream as a more natural pathway but ultimately they say "the straw that broke the camel's back" to abandon Red Hat Enterprise Linux was the "-march=x86-64-v2" compiler flag default as "forced obsolescence" for old hardware. I think I read recently about another large company or institution that cited the same reason for moving away from a major Linux-based OS.
- maxnoe 1mo agoFor industrial computers and other embedded systems. Computing AFAIK is very much still based on RHEL-based distros, Alma Linux specifically. https://linux.web.cern.ch/ https://linux.web.cern.ch/