[LON-CAPA-admin] CentOS 9-Stream install

[Donald Teed]

Hi,

I notice Debian was once a platform supported, but very long ago (Debian
5.0)
In my opinion, Rocky and Alma will no longer be very close to Redhat as
they used to be.
The developers have admitted in blogs that they will need to resort to
reverse engineering things
which they will no longer be able to copy from Redhat's package
management.  If one
is interested in quick turnaround on zero day Linux OS exploits and the
benefits
of a mass of developers and users able to help with QA, then Debian
provides a
better path going forward.  We could look at Ubuntu, but I'd rather reduce
the number
of Linux distros we have in use on campus.  So this is a request that
perhaps Debian be considered another supported platform.

Regards,

--Donald Teed

On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 9:56 AM loncapa_admin via LON-CAPA-admin <
lon-capa-admin at mail.lon-capa.org> wrote:

> Thank you, Stuart,
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>
> > On Sep 15, 2023, at 20:49, Raeburn, Stuart via LON-CAPA-admin <
> lon-capa-admin at mail.lon-capa.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Yes, CentOS Stream 9 will be one of the Linux distros supported for
> LON-CAPA 2.12.0, and a testing repo has been in place at
> install.loncapa.org/msu/testing for a few months to facilitate release
> candidate testing for 2.12.0.  (The same is true for: RHEL/Oracle
> Linux/AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux 9, and Ubuntu 22 LTS).
> >
> > Stuart Raeburn
> > LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: LON-CAPA-admin <lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org> on
> behalf of Michael Dugdale via LON-CAPA-admin <
> lon-capa-admin at mail.lon-capa.org>
> > Sent: Friday, September 15, 2023 7:20 PM
> > To: list about administration and system updating
> > Subject: [LON-CAPA-admin] CentOS 9-Stream install
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > With CentOS 7 and CentOS Stream 8 going EOL next year, are there any
> plans for providing a LON-CAPA repo for CentOS 9-Stream systems?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > Michael Dugdale
> > Physics Department,
> > John Abbott College,
> > 21275 Lakeshore Road,
> > Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC  H9X 3L9
> > Canada
> > (514) 457-6610 Ext. 5 888
> > michael.dugdale at johnabbott.qc.ca
> >
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