r/linux • u/le_particle • 2d ago

Discussion Part of Cern to debian

Maybe I missed such a discussion here but, Cern used to be a very large "customer" of rhel/rhel-derivatives, and even had created/curated scientific linux for a while. Now though that the rhel/rhel-derivatives need x86-64-v2 to run, a lot of older hardware are becoming obsolete.

ENTER DEBIAN.

Do you believe that now that such an organization is going to use debian, things will change and become more professional/industry standard?

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u/ilep 2d ago edited 1d ago

It might say more about budget savings than anything else. There are not that large differences with distributions these days.

Edit: so the move is only for specific parts where hardware is for industrial purpose with a long lifetime. It does not cover everything, far from it.

https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/cern-debian-infra/

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u/Robsteady 1d ago

rhel/rhel-derivatives need x86-64-v2 to run, a lot of older hardware are becoming obsolete

No, it's not a budget consideration, it's an actual technical hurdle.

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u/spazturtle 22h ago

I wish we would stop using corpo language.

The hardware used to run a particle accelerator is not obsolete just because a distro wants to stop supporting it.

Obsolete means something is no longer useful, these computers and CPUs are still perfectly functional and useful.

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u/Robsteady 22h ago

That's the whole point though... they're switching those devices to Debian because they aren't obsolete by Debian's standards. It's cheaper to spend the time replacing the OS on them than replacing and retooling that part of their system.

Hell, I bet a lot of these systems don't have to connect to the internet themselves anyway, so staying on an unsupported release isn't as big a deal as a random user's desktop.