On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Tim Cutts <t...@sanger.ac.uk> wrote: > I've always found it curious that many vendors officially only support Red > Hat and friends, but when you ask the engineers, you find they're using > Debian to do the development work. I guess that's just commercial reality > though.
it was explained to me, right or wrong, that this decision to only support offical distro's like SUSE or RHEL stemmed from two major points; 1. rhel/suse generally have a more stable update system with a predictable path. with rhel's huge leap in v7 this might not really be wholly true anymore. but the larger issue, is point 2. whereby, suse and rhel are commercial entities in which legal verbiage can be tied to and leveraged. this is the reason, i believe, why some vendors will now support ubuntu, but still not "officially" support debian i've seen this argument made a few times having worked for HPC vendors and now government contracting, so i think it holds some weight. but i'm not a lawyer so take it as my opinion... _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf