CERN was a big user of CentOS. After redhat changed CentOS8 EOL, CERN was allowed to use RHEL. Last time I checked, they suggested others in high energy physics community to use Rocky or Alma if RHEL is not an option.
https://mobile.twitter.com/passthejoe/status/144693144711837...
- Several bugs have been encountered in Stream, which were not present in RHEL.
- Some user communities had previously expressed concerns on the feasibility of using Stream in a production setting. This feeling has also recently been expressed internally by some IT groups.
- CERN is evaluating our original recommendation [0] of utilising CentOS Stream as the default Linux Operating System.
[0] https://linux.web.cern.ch/#update-on-centos-linux-strategy