The benefits of SL described are pretty handwaivy to me. Having used a fork of scientific Linux, this was a huge pain because of outdated openSSL packages. Now you could argue this deserves being maintained separately, but I think it makes total sense to use the security- benefits of long term distros and only modify the parts required for reproducible scientific work.
I was really glad when the vendor started unofficially supporting OpenSuse so I could finally use git on these distros.
I was really glad when the vendor started unofficially supporting OpenSuse so I could finally use git on these distros.