Scientific Linux Will Be Discontinued After 14 Years as Fermilab Moves to CentOS

guest · Apr 24, 2019

Scientific Linux Will Be Discontinued After 14 Years as Fermilab Moves to CentOS
Scientific Linux 6.x/7.x to be supported until end of life
April 24, 2019
https://news.softpedia.com/news/sci...s-fermilab-moves-to-centos-linux-525789.shtml

Produced by Fermilab, CERN, ETH Zurich, and DESY, Scientific Linux is an open-source and free Linux-based operating system derived from the freely distributed sourced of Red Hat's RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). It was first released 14 years ago on May 10th, 2004.

Now, almost 14 years later, those who worked hard to maintain one of the very few GNU/Linux distributions dedicated to science have decided that it's time to rest and no longer publish new releases of Scientific Linux. Scientific Linux 8 was supposed to be the next major version, but it won't see the light of day.

Fermilab's Pat Riehecky announced that the team will soon migrate their computers dedicated to scientific operations at CERN and other institutions to the upcoming CentOS Linux 8 operating system, which should be out later this year based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 series.
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BetaNews: Scientific Linux is dead, and that's a good thing

There are too many Linux distributions these days. While it can be argued that having too much choice is never a bad thing, the truth is, having so many distros causes resources to be spread too thinly. There is a lot of redundancy and waste, and eventually, the chickens will come home to roost -- we will see Linux-based operating systems begin to drop like flies.

While it is sad to see Scientific Linux die, the truth is, the demise is a good thing. Like I said earlier, it is wasteful to maintain several similar distributions, and there is really no good reason why these scientific organizations can't use the excellent CentOS.
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