Fermilab, which develops the Scientific Linux distribution, on the termination of the development of a new branch of the distribution. In the future, the computer systems of Fermilab and other laboratories involved in the project will be transferred to use CentOS 8. A new branch of Scientific Linux 8 based on the package base , will not be generated.
Instead of maintaining their own distribution, Fermilab intends to partner with CERN and other scientific organizations to improve CentOS and turn it into a better platform for computing systems used in high-energy physics experiments. The transition to CentOS will make it possible to unify the computing platform for scientific applications, which will simplify the organization of work in existing and future joint international projects covering various laboratories and institutes.
Resources freed up by delegating distribution and infrastructure maintenance to the CentOS project can be used to improve components specific to scientific applications. Switching from Scientific Linux to CentOS shouldn't be a problem, since as part of the preparation of the Scientific Linux 6 branch, scientific-specific applications and additional drivers were moved to external repositories ΠΈ . As in the case of CentOS, the differences between Scientific Linux and RHEL were mostly rebranded and cleaned up bindings to Red Hat services.
Maintenance of existing Scientific Linux 6.x and 7.x branches will continue without change, in sync with the regular RHEL 6.x and 7.x. Updates for Scientific Linux 6.x will continue to be released until November 30, 2020, and for the 7.x branch until June 30, 2024.
Source: opennet.ru