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)".

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