On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 04:52:54PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > So - who else is contemplating a move to Debian? >
Count me in. All ARM stuff is already Debian (Ubuntu/Raspbian/Raspios). Tomorrow, I am converting my 3 ARM machines running CentOS-7 to Raspios, next day, I am converting my 8 or so 32-bit-only VME processors from SL6 to Debian (32-bit). If we could run RedHat-flavour stuff on all our hardware, there could be a question. But running Debian-flavour stuff on everything and RedHat-flavour only on x64_64? > > I very much hope to stay connected to the "scientific" > aspect of our community. Making big changes together > with other science computationalists would be easier. > I figure we stick together on this mailing list here. > > Easier still would be staying with an RPM distro, IF ... > ... if they did not mess with RPM (yum replaced with dnf) and made it easier to build RPM packages. For installing cross-platform scripts, I am switching from RPM to "git clone; make install (installs to /opt)". -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
