[ale] A little Linux News

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed May 22 18:57:36 EDT 2019


Fir a while SL was different from Centos in a few subtle ways. This last release, 7, was identical except for the artwork pack.

They always beat Centos to a release after RHEL released. 

On May 22, 2019 3:27:23 PM EDT, Raj Wurttemberg via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Did you also see that Scientific Linux is ending as well:
>
>https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Scientific-Linux-EOL
>
>[ Text of the article if you don't want to click the link.]
>
>----
>
>Scientific Linux 6/7 Will Remain Supported But The Distribution Is
>Ending
>Written by Michael Larabel in Red Hat on 22 April 2019 at 11:31 AM EDT.
>
>
>RED HAT -- For those wanting a community-supported, free version in
>effect of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the two options have been CentOS
>with its close relation (and employment) by Red Hat or Scientific Linux
>that has been maintained Fermilab, CERN, and other research labs.
>Moving forward, however, these labs are going to be adopting CentOS 8
>and they will not be developing a new version of Scientific Linux based
>on the upcoming RHEL8. 
>
>Scientific Linux has now been effectively made end-of-life. Fermilab
>and other parties involved will continue supporting Scientific Linux 6
>and Scientific Linux 7 based on RHEL6 and RHEL7, respectively, but
>moving forward they themselves are switching over to CentOS. 
>
>They announced the decision today on scientific-linux-announce that in
>cooperation with CERN and other labs will be working on upstream CentOS
>as opposed to developing Scientific Linux 8. 
>
>Scientific Linux had been around since 2004 with version 3.0.1 based on
>the Red Hat sources of the time. This isn't too surprising as CERN had
>already been migrating away from Scientific Linux to CentOS in recent
>years while Fermilab continued as its primary sponsor. Scientific Linux
>had also continued seeing significant delays before pushing out new
>releases following upstream RHEL point releases.
>
>----
>
>/Raj
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of DJ-Pfulio via Ale
>Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 2:54 PM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: [ale] A little Linux News
>
>Antergos Linux Project Ends
>  https://antergos.com/blog/antergos-linux-project-ends/
>
>South Korea’s Government is Switching to Linux
>  https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/south-korea-swith-to-linux
>I'm worried their timing is way to short to beat the Win7 EOL date.
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