米Red Hatが「RHEL 7.5」を公開 4月10日(米国時間)、「Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5」を公開した。 セキュリティ、ストレージ性能と効率化、コンテナ、管理などを強化している OpenSCAPとRed Hat Ansible Automationを統合、セキュリティ自動化を進めた ttps://mag.osdn.jp/18/04/11/161500
RHEL 7.5互換の「Scientific Linux 7.5」リリース Scientific Linux開発チームは5月10日、Red Hat Enterprise Linuxと互換性を 持つフリーのLinuxディストリビューション「Scientific Linux 7.5」を公開 Scientific Linuxは、研究や学術用途向けのLinuxディストリビューション ttps://mag.osdn.jp/18/05/14/220000
RHEL 6.10互換の「Scientific Linux 6.10」リリース Scientific Linux開発チームは7月10日、「Scientific Linux 6.10」公開を発表した i386とx86_64に対応する Scientific Linuxはフェルミ国立加速器研究所が出資するプロジェクトで、 Red Hat Enterprise Linux(RHEL)から商標などを除去し、科学技術計算で 利用されるソフトウェアなどを追加したディストリビューション ttps://mag.osdn.jp/18/07/12/161500
CERN and Fermilab have been closely evaluating the Linux distribution landscape. We observe that national cyber infrastructure organizations are increasingly supporting more science domains, so in addition to LHC- or HEP-specific considerations, it will be useful to have a choice that is widely recognized and meets the needs of broader science research.
Red Hat has made a proposal to CERN regarding an academic licensing scheme. Ultimately this would require significant overhead at external sites, and therefore we have worries on this proposal’s attractiveness for other sites.
Going forward, we propose to target CentOS Stream as the standard distribution for experiments. We feel that deploying CentOS Stream 8 is low risk, and we now have months of experience running IT services and experiment offline workloads on CentOS Stream 8 without any significant issues. We feel that should issues arise with the adoption of CentOS Stream 8, it would be straightforward to reevaluate other options before CentOS Stream 8 support ends. CentOS Stream 8 is a supported distribution until May 2024. Trivial migration paths are provided by the various ELC (Enterprise LinuxClone) communities.
Continued support for existing workloads on Scientific Linux 7 and CERN CentOS 7 will be maintained as previously planned.
Fermilab/CERN recommendation for Linux distribution 08.12.2022
CERN and Fermilab jointly plan to provide AlmaLinux as the standard distribution for experiments at our facilities, reflecting recent experience and discussions with experiments and other stakeholders. AlmaLinux has recently been gaining traction among the community due to its long life cycle for each major version, extended architecture support, rapid release cycle, upstream community contributions, and support for security advisory metadata. In testing, it has demonstrated to be perfectly compatible with the other rebuilds and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
CERN and, to a lesser extent, Fermilab, will also use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for some services and applications within the respective laboratories. Scientific Linux 7, at Fermilab, and CERN CentOS 7, at CERN, will continue to be supported for their remaining life, until June 2024.
In response to Red Hat's recent announcement to restrict public source code releases to CentOS Stream, the AlmaLinux Foundation has announced that they will drop the aim to be "bug-for-bug compatible" with RHEL, and instead focus on Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatibility. They will work to ensure that applications built to run on RHEL can run without any issues on AlmaLinux, even in situations where package versions deviate slightly from those available in RHEL. :