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CentOS 6 making its way out to mirrorsCentOS 6 making its way out to mirrorsPosted Jul 9, 2011 21:08 UTC (Sat) by prometheanfire (subscriber, #65683)In reply to: CentOS 6 making its way out to mirrors by robert_s Parent article: CentOS 6 making its way out to mirrors
Scientific Linux has been around since before CentOS (by only 4 days). I wouldn't call CERN small.
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CentOS 6 making its way out to mirrors Posted Jul 10, 2011 9:49 UTC (Sun) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]
CERN itself may not be small, but academic budgets are always notoriously threatened. All it takes is for the project to be squeezed out of the budget one year and things are in trouble.
CentOS 6 making its way out to mirrors Posted Jul 11, 2011 8:32 UTC (Mon) by pcampe (subscriber, #28223) [Link]
People are paid to work on Scientific Linux: this explains the extremely good schedule, and the support when it comes to pushing errata, as developers are not allowed to take vacation on the same time; CentOS has, at best, an opaque organizational structure, and some months ago they suffered some organizational difficulties as the owner of the CentOS web domain was out of reach.
It's possible that there are better ways to build a rebuild of RHEL, and that this two projects could somehow merge and reduce the overlap they have; but you can't say that, comparing to CentOS, SL has some kind of budget problem, it's exactly the opposite.
CentOS 6 making its way out to mirrors Posted Jul 10, 2011 9:55 UTC (Sun) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link] And while I'm at it, yes, CERN (even including the extended scientific community) is a very small market when compared to the world at large.
CentOS 6 making its way out to mirrors Posted Jul 11, 2011 1:28 UTC (Mon) by ewan (subscriber, #5533) [Link]
It's mostly maintained, and maintained well, by Fermilab, who've just recently added a couple more people to it. It's also deployed on countless thousand of systems in the the LHC computing grid, as well as local physics department systems all over the place. It's future is secure precisely because of the state of academia - we need something just like it, we're not going to be paying for Red Hat Enterprise, and there's an awful lot of bright people involved; If FNAL stopped supporting SL, someone else it would pick it up again in very short order.
An awful lot of funding has goes into projects and experiments that currently rely on SL - without any serious alternative (no, CentOS isn't one), we can't and won't let it die.
CentOS 6 making its way out to mirrors Posted Aug 14, 2011 22:58 UTC (Sun) by iggymanz (guest, #78313) [Link]
You do know that Fermilab is largely shutting down in October of this year? There are some experiments and data analysis on site that will continue, but the main ones driven by the accelerator are EOL.
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