Want to get serious about a Linux distribution, then why not try what the scientific community uses?
The AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the open-source CentOS alternative AlmaLinux, has announced that CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics and Fermilab, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States, will use AlmaLinux as one of the standard Linux distributions for experiments at their facilities.
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