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One of the constant themes in our industry is that we have to push back against the idea that "We've always done it this way". So let's talk about the way we've always done CentOS.

https://medium.com/@gordon.messmer/if-you-dont-understand-its-purpose-you-can-t-improve-the-process-4e48260c3887


If you don’t understand its purpose, you can’t improve the process.

There’s been a lot of discussion over the last week regarding CentOS, Stream, rebuilds, and Red Hat. One of the aspects common to all of the conversations I’ve seen has been the blanket assertion…
Gordon Messmer (Medium)
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Alan Sill
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This is a nicely written, informative, and useful post that unfortunately once again completely ignores or at best tangentially touches upon the needs that Red Hat is missing for running academic #HPC clusters. I’d love an opportunity to discuss this in more detail with someone not in the sales side of Red Hat, preferably in management. Also this misses the fact that most OS distributions are freely available and companies make their money on higher level products.
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Gordon Messmer
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@AlanSill I hope you get that meeting. As I'm not a Red Hat employee, I can't help you get it. 🙁

Certainly, there are free OS distributions, but they generally have a five year life cycle, like Stream, because a 10 year life cycle and a 3 year cadence means that the vendor has to maintain a lot of releases simultaneously, and many of those releases significantly differ from the upstream projects in the last five years, so backporting patches them is much more difficult.

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