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by pjmlp 975 days ago
> I think what's really needed is a competitor to RHEL in the scientific computing/HPC space.

No idea how it looks nowadays, however I can tell how it started, back in 2004 when research institutes like CERN, were moving away from Solaris and alongside Fermilab created Scientific Linux based on Red-Hat.

I used to have a stack of pizza box Sun workstations pilled up on my research room.