<div dir="ltr"><br><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>I notice Debian was once a platform supported, but very long ago (Debian 5.0)</div><div>In my opinion, Rocky and Alma will no longer be very close to Redhat as they used to be.<br>The developers have admitted in blogs that they will need to resort to reverse engineering things<br>which they will no longer be able to copy from Redhat's package management. If one<br>is interested in quick turnaround on zero day Linux OS exploits and the benefits<br>of a mass of developers and users able to help with QA, then Debian provides a<br>better path going forward. We could look at Ubuntu, but I'd rather reduce the number<br>of Linux distros we have in use on campus. So this is a request that<br>perhaps Debian be considered another supported platform.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>--Donald Teed</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 9:56 AM loncapa_admin via LON-CAPA-admin <<a href="mailto:lon-capa-admin@mail.lon-capa.org">lon-capa-admin@mail.lon-capa.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Thank you, Stuart,<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Michael<br>
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> On Sep 15, 2023, at 20:49, Raeburn, Stuart via LON-CAPA-admin <<a href="mailto:lon-capa-admin@mail.lon-capa.org" target="_blank">lon-capa-admin@mail.lon-capa.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hello,<br>
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> 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 <a href="http://install.loncapa.org/msu/testing" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">install.loncapa.org/msu/testing</a> 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).<br>
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> Stuart Raeburn<br>
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium<br>
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> From: LON-CAPA-admin <<a href="mailto:lon-capa-admin-bounces@mail.lon-capa.org" target="_blank">lon-capa-admin-bounces@mail.lon-capa.org</a>> on behalf of Michael Dugdale via LON-CAPA-admin <<a href="mailto:lon-capa-admin@mail.lon-capa.org" target="_blank">lon-capa-admin@mail.lon-capa.org</a>><br>
> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2023 7:20 PM<br>
> To: list about administration and system updating<br>
> Subject: [LON-CAPA-admin] CentOS 9-Stream install<br>
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> Hello,<br>
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> 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?<br>
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> Cheers,<br>
> Michael<br>
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> Michael Dugdale<br>
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