There's a silent but relatively big user base of CentOS in HPC and scientific computing.
ScientificLinux and CentOS rules all HPC clusters. Clusters are like enterprise servers. Big, monolithic, rarely upgraded. They're upgraded in one big-fell swoop and left to run.
There'll be another clone of RHEL since HPC can't accept CentOS Stream as the alternative. The whole infra is too big to move to Debian too.
So with today's announcement, a new distro is born. Also Greg (CentOS' founder's) domain (HPCng) is very telling...
We'll see. We're in for a hell of a ride. If you excuse me, I need to dust-off my XCAT servers...
ScientificLinux and CentOS rules all HPC clusters. Clusters are like enterprise servers. Big, monolithic, rarely upgraded. They're upgraded in one big-fell swoop and left to run.
There'll be another clone of RHEL since HPC can't accept CentOS Stream as the alternative. The whole infra is too big to move to Debian too.
So with today's announcement, a new distro is born. Also Greg (CentOS' founder's) domain (HPCng) is very telling...
We'll see. We're in for a hell of a ride. If you excuse me, I need to dust-off my XCAT servers...