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by oefrha 2017 days ago
When I was at Princeton, a lot of clusters ran Springdale Linux[1], which is a Princeton/IAS version of RHEL compiled from RHEL source. I wonder why they didn't simply choose CentOS, and if there's any institution outside Princeton using Springdale.

Btw: it doesn't seem to have been ported to RHEL 8 (?).

[1] http://springdale.math.ias.edu/
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llarsson 2016 days ago
They address that particular question even before the FAQ on their site:

"This project was started long before CentOS or other projects were available."

I bet the have calculated that their work maintaining this is rather simple and well-worth it, or they would have changed over to CentOS a long time ago.

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fooblat 2016 days ago
They don't have a dvd iso for Springdale 8 but there is a boot.iso download and a package repo[1]

1. https://springdale.math.ias.edu/data/puias/8/

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