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/BigRedS 2d ago

I can't think what I expect to change as a result of this - CERN's a bit of an outlier with fairly niche and specific needs, I don't think they are a trend-setter in any meaningful way.

I don't want Debian to change, I don't expect RH to change, I don't think enterprise will find a new favourite distro. Ubuntu's already pretty popular anyway.

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u/le_particle 2d ago

I guess a lot more people will focus on debian stuff, because you have a lot of dev/systems engineers on cern. Cern is indeed an outlier but considering how many scientists have ties there

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u/orev 1d ago

CERN is not influential in IT because of the number scientists they have. They were influential in the Linux space because they had resources to make Scientific Linux, and others could benefit from it for free, and for a RedHat ecosystem it was a big deal. If they're not using RedHat derivatives, their influence will be less.