what a weird title. the actual article is fact base but the title is just weird. why is it good (or bad) news? why not just say “CERN moves over 2,200 control system to drbian 13 to support the older hardware”
tldr: their infra that interfaces directly with accelerator uses really old computers and they are unsupported in newer versions of rhel. Only those machines are affected by these good news.
Personally, this looks weird, they are planning to run like 20 years old machines for another 10 to save money on replacing them while at the same time they are planning (or already in the process) migration to k8s?
Lol that is pretty important context XD
Supporting red hat costs 5.5 Mio for the next ~8 years, and the switch to debian? What would replacing the old hardware (~20 years old) cost?
It’s bad for red hat, good for debian and suse wasn’t even considered?
